Winston Churchill Quotes
Winston Churchill Quotes
Winston Churchill was the leader of England during World War Two. He is a well-respected politican for the most part, known for his fiery speeches and his ability to keep his people optimistic and content during the tough times of the second Great War.
Churchill was a great orator and a clever wordsmith, and many of his quotes are just as funny as the other quotes are rousing and patriotic.
Here are my favorite Churchill quotes, some of them pointed and hilarious and other inspirational.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston Churchill
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
Winston Churchill
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Winston Churchill
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Winston Churchill
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill
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.
Winston Churchill
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston Churchill
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston Churchill
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston Churchill
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.
Winston Churchill
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Winston Churchill
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston Churchill
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston Churchill
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston Churchill
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Winston Churchill
It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion’s heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston Churchill
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.
Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
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