Winston Churchill Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Winston Churchill on Wise Famous Quotes.
I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.
I think it would be so much better for me to learn something which would be useful to me in the army, as well as affording me exercise and amusement.
There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."
Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory.
[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
If you are young, and not liberal, then you don't have a heart. If you are old, and not conservative, then you don't have a brain.
The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.
Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.
No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.
Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.
Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.
It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.
There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.
I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.
Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.
I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.
It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.