Quotes from Winston Churchill

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

It is a good thing to stand away from the canvas from time to time and take a full view of the picture.

I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

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

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

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

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.