Quotes By Winston Churchill

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

"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.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.