Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.

Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

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

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

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.

A joke is a very serious thing.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

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.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.