Quotes By Winston Churchill

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.

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

English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

Air power may either end war or end civilization.

To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.

The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.

It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.

Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

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.

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.