Winston Churchill – Inspired a generation to withstand evil that was threatening the essence of mankind. He did it with candor, with humor and with his ever-present cigar in tow.
A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Winston Churchill
Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Winston Churchill
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill
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.
Winston Churchill
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
Winston Churchill
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!
Winston Churchill
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
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.
Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
Winston Churchill
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations… The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Winston Churchill