This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
—Winston Churchill
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Courage, Bravery
I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Communism
Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Communism, Socialism
I am a man of simple tastes, easily satisifed with the best.
—Winston Churchill
Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you
—Winston Churchill
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Aging, Age
The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Habit
Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Courage
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Democracy
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller..
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Golf
Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Courage, Bravery, Jobs
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Authors & Writing
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Death, God, Nature, Faith, Dying
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
—Winston Churchill
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Presidency
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Compromise
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Words
Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Truth
The maxim “Nothing avails but perfection” may be spelled “Paralysis”.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Perfection
There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Planning
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Criticism
Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
—Winston Churchill
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Battle
Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Politics
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and the glory of the climb.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Adventure
Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Power
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: The Military
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Leadership, Nation, Leaders
Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
—Winston Churchill
Topics: Courage
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