Quotes By Winston Churchill

Justice moves slowly and remorselessly upon its path, but it reaches its goal eventually.

One ought to be just before one is generous.

The king cannot fall unworthily if he falls to the sword of the ace.

The recognition of their language is precious to a small people.

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

Life is a whole, and good and ill must be accepted together.

Live dangerously; take things as they come; dread naught, all will be well.

It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

As we have triumphed, so we may be merciful; as we are strong, so we can afford to be generous.

The productive capacity of the human race is greater this afternoon than it ever was before.

Moral force is, unhappily, no substitute for armed force, but it is a very great reinforcement.

At times of crisis, myths have their historical importance.

When you borrow money from another country for the sacred purpose of national rehabilitation, it is wrong to squander it upon indulgences.

When a country collapses, the chaos reproduces itself in every microcosm.

A nation without a conscience is a nation without a soul. A nation without a soul is a nation that cannot live.

It is sometimes wise to allow natural processes to work, and crimes and follies to be paid in coin from their own mint.

To urge the preparation of defence is not to assert the imminence of war. On the contrary, if war were imminent, preparations for defence would be too late.

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

I would rather have a peace-keeping hypocrisy than straightforward, brazen vice, taking the form of unlimited war.

Nothing is perfect on the human stage.