Quotes from sir winston churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

Never, give in! Never give in! Never, never, never... In nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

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

A nation that forgets its past has no 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.

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

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you are ugly; but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

I will not pretend that, if I had to choose between Communism and Nazism, I would choose Communism. I hope not to be called upon to survive in the world under a Government of either of these dispensations. I cannot feel any enthusiasm for these rival creeds. I feel unbounded sorrow and sympathy for the victims.

Hear this, young men and women everywhere, and proclaim it far and wide. The earth is yours and the fullness thereof. Be kind, but be fierce. You are needed now more than ever before. Take up the mantle of change. For this is your time.

Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in.

Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.

A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in ... And how many want out.

A lie get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on.

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.

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

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.

Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

There but for the grace of God goes God.

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