Quotes from Winston Churchill

The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

Without ships, we cannot live.

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.