Quotes from Winston Churchill

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

Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

I think "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. I got it from Sumner Welles.

Let us… 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."

In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

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

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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.

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

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

When I warned [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, "In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken." Some chicken; some neck.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

The United States is a land of free speech. No where is speech freer—not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.