Quotes By Winston Churchill

Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.

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.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world.

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.