Quotes By Winston Churchill

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. I'll fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

Perfectionism spells paralysis.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.

Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.

I do not apologize for the takeover of the region by the Jews from the Palestinians in the same way I don't apologize for the takeover of America by the whites from the Red Indians or the takeover of Australia from the blacks. It is natural for a superior race to dominate an inferior one.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.