Quotes By Winston Churchill

You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.

The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!

The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

You ask what the aim is? I tell you it is victory - total victory.

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

I drink and smoke and I am two hundred percent fit.

Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.