Quotes from Winston Churchill

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry on as if nothing had happened.

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

The qualities of mongrels are rarely admirable, and the mixture of the Arab and negro types has produced a debased and cruel breed, more shocking because they are more intelligent than the primitive savages.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.

Sunshine is my quest.

Broadly speaking, short words are best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to have changed often.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

That long [Canadian] frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

"Not in vain" may be the pride of those who have survived and the epitaph of those who fell.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.