Inspiring Quotes by Winston Churchill - Page 3

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"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all"

"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times"

"No crime is so great as daring to excel"

""No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again"

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject"

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope"

"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed"

"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham"

"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter"

"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting"

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put"

"Eating words has never given me indigestion"

"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old"

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won"

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others"

"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself"

"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank"

"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times"

"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong"

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result"

"One does not leave a convivial party before closing time"

"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization"

"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 problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult"

"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival"

"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information"

"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent"

"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true"

"We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years"

"When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise"

"We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect"

"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty"

"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game"

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive"

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time"

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future"

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary"

"I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside"

"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"

"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it"

"We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened"

"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire"

"What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?"

"The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure"

"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another"

"There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you"

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