Famous Quotes

Quotes by Winston Churchill

• It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
• Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
• Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
• No crime is so great as daring to excel.
• No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
• No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
• Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
• One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
• Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
• Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
• Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
• 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.
• Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
• Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
• Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
• Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
• The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
• The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
• The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
• The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
• The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
• 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.
• The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
• The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
• There is no such thing as a good tax.
• These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
• This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
• 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.
• To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
• War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
• War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.