Top 100 Churchill Winston Quotes
#1. In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.
Winston Churchill
#2. Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
#4. Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world.
Winston Churchill
#5. We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.
Winston Churchill
#6. You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.
Winston Churchill
#7. I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one."
- George Bernard Shaw, playwright (to Winston Churchill)
"Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one."
- Churchill's response
George Bernard Shaw
#10. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
Winston Churchill
#12. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.
Winston Churchill
#14. Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!
Winston Churchill
#15. We shall fight on the beaches,we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,we shall fight in the hills;but we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
#16. Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.
Winston Churchill
#17. Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
Winston Churchill
#18. Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
Winston Churchill
#19. Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.
Winston S. Churchill
#20. Winston Churchill said, "We shape our buildings and then they shape us."23 We make our technologies, and they, in turn, shape us.
Sherry Turkle
#22. I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston S. Churchill
#23. It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
Winston S. Churchill
#24. I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.
Winston Churchill
#26. There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
Winston Churchill
#27. Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter ... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.
Winston Churchill
#28. I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Winston S. Churchill
#30. Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston Churchill
#31. There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them
Winston Churchill
#32. Winston Churchill once said, "If you want to destroy them, distract them." And that's exactly what our adversary does; he distracts us completely from the greater cause, which is to pull together so we might know Christ and make Him known. Second
Darlene Zschech
#33. Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.
Winston Churchill
#35. A man must choose his own way of life, and ... it is only by following out one's own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.
[In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]
Winston S. Churchill
#37. Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston S. Churchill
#38. Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.
Winston Churchill
#39. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
[On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]
Winston S. Churchill
#40. Madness is however an affliction which in war carries with it the advantage of SURPRISE.
Winston S. Churchill
#41. I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.
Winston Churchill
#42. The German leaders, said Winston Churchill, turned upon Russia the most grisly of all weapons. They transported Lenin in a sealed truck like a plague bacillus from Switzerland into Russia.
Robert K. Massie
#43. It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.
Winston S. Churchill
#44. Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
George Bernard Shaw
#45. It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say ... This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.
Winston Churchill
#47. If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.
Winston Churchill
#48. The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.
Winston Churchill
#49. I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.
Winston Churchill
#52. It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.
Winston Churchill
#54. Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common ... Celebrate it every day.
Winston Churchill
#56. Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.
Winston Churchill
#58. If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.
Winston Churchill
#60. How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.
Winston S. Churchill
#61. Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
Winston Churchill
#62. George Patton and Winston Churchill are simpatico.
Bill O'Reilly
#63. I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.
Winston Churchill
#64. At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.
Winston Churchill
#68. Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
#69. Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.
Winston Churchill
#70. Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.
Winston Churchill
#72. Let it never be said that you crept into the crypt, crapped, and crept out again.
Winston S. Churchill
#74. My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
#75. Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill
#76. Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.
Winston Churchill
#77. I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.
Winston Churchill
#80. The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.
Winston Churchill
#82. Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
(Winston Churchill)
Winston S. Churchill
#84. Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.
Winston Churchill
#85. It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
Winston Churchill
#86. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.
Winston S. Churchill
#87. Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future ... But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.
Winston Churchill
#88. I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.
Winston Churchill
#89. A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
Winston Churchill
#90. You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.
Winston Churchill
#91. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Winston S. Churchill
#92. Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
Winston Churchill
#93. At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.
Winston Churchill
#94. Churchill's 2,054 page book "Second World War" makes no mention of genocide or the murder of Jews. Coincidentally, Churchill was a strong proponent of eugenic legislation prior to the outbreak of WWII.
A.E. Samaan
#95. This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry ... I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America ... Everything else is swept away.
Winston Churchill
#96. 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.
Winston Churchill
#97. You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.
Winston Churchill
#98. They have destroyed your weapons," he had told the generals, in effect. "But these weapons would in any case have become obsolete before the next war. That war will be fought with brand-new ones, and the army which is least hampered with obsolete material will have a great advantage.
Winston S. Churchill
#99. The name 'United Nations' was Franklin D. Roosevelt's idea. He rushed to tell Winston Churchill, who was towelling himself stark naked in his bathroom.
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