Winston S. Churchill Quotes

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

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emot...

The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance, or frozen in a long night, can be awakened by...

Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Social...

If you are going through hell, keep going

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hur...

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miser...

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

I'm bored with it all. - Last Words

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.