Quotes By Winston Churchill

Hope flies on wings, and international conferences plod afterwards dusty roads.

Criticism in the body politic is like pain in the human body. It is not pleasant, but where would the body be without it?

Dangers which are warded off and difficulties which are overcome before they reach a crisis are utterly unrecognised.

Those who dealt in guineas were not usually of the impoverished class.

Wait and see how you feel when the tide is running the other way. It does not seem so easy to die when death is near.

For defeat there is only one answer... victory.

One must never be discouraged by defeats in one's youth, but continue to learn throughout one's whole life.

Democracy is more vindictive than Cabinets.

It is a crime to despair. We must learn to draw from misfortune the means of future strength.

The veils of the future are lifted one by one, and mortals must act from day to day.

Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Face to face, difficulties which appear really insuperable at a distance are very often removed altogether from our path.

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience.

Things do not get better by being let alone. Unless they are adjusted, they explode with shattering detonation.

So we have had to dispense with the indispensable.

It is an important thing to diagnose the evil, but unless the malady be recognised it is idle to attempt to seek the remedy.

Facts are better than dreams.

United wishes and goodwill cannot overcome brute facts.

What a slender thread the greatest of things can hang by.

Plant a garden in which you can sit when digging days are done.