Quotes By Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over, I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.