Quotes from Winston Churchill

It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

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

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

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

To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.

If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.

All the great things are simple.