Quotes By Winston Churchill

He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits.

Keep England White' is a good slogan.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

The most important thing about education is appetite.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne.