“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught"
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential."
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
"The stone age may return on the gleaming wings of science"
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
"It is arguable whether the human race have gained by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens the field of infinite convenience to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world much smaller. Still more we fear the consequences of enttrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the socalled barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse."
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
"Success Is Never Final and Failure Never Fatal. It’s Courage That Counts"
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn’t happen.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“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 S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find that we have lost the future.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favor of using poison gas against uncivilized tribes. It would spread a lively terror.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
"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 (1874-1965)
“I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don’t apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
"“All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
“the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)
"And even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the Old."
― Winston S. Churchill (1874-1965)