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Churchill Quotes

.... You ask, What is our policy? I will say; "It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy." You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory - 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.

In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a Glow Worm.

In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory magnanimity; in peace, goodwill.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.

It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. (of Chamberlain)

Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height (of Sir Stafford Cripps at a dinner party.)

If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself. (of Keir Hardie)

There but for the grace of God goes God. (of Cripps)

It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honorable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale. (on Mr Bevan)

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

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

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Don't talk to me about Naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

Everybody has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

We do not want to punish the landlord. We want to alter the law.

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.