Quotes By Winston Churchill

There are many people in England, and perhaps elsewhere, who seem to be unable to contemplate military operations for clear political objects, unless they can cajole themselves into the belief that their enemy are utterly and hopelessly vile.

Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.

I was brought up in my father's house to believe in democracy. 'Trust the people.' That was his message. I used to see him cheered at meetings and in the streets by crowds of workingmen way back in those aristocratic Victorian days.

I owe my advancement entirely to the House of Commons, whose servant I am. In my country as in yours public men are proud to be the servants of the State and would be ashamed to be its masters.

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Time and money are largely interchangeable terms.

Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries.

Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound, and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

War never pays its dividends in cash on the money it costs.