Top 1291 Quotes & Sayings by Winston Churchill - Page 4

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

"Mr. Churchill you're drunk!" Mr. Churchill: "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly.

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

If you find a job you love, you'll never work again.

We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.

Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.

All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

Keep calm and carry on.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.