Quotes By Winston Churchill

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival.

It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

If you want me to speak for two minutes, it will take me three weeks of preparation. If you want me to speak for thirty minutes, it will take me a week to prepare. If you want me to speak for an hour, I am ready now.

The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.

Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.