Quotes By Winston Churchill

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

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.

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion.

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

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.

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.