Famous Quotes

Quotes by Winston Churchill

• 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.