Quotes By Winston Churchill

"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

A joke is a very serious thing.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.