Winston Churchill Quotes and Sayings (2)
Quotes by Winston Churchill

Study history, study history.
In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill

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If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words,
and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
- Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill

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

Do not let spacious plans for a new world
divert your energies from saving
what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile,
hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill

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

There is no such thing as a good tax.
- Winston Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a
prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity,
they have only got to behave in a
peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
- Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over,
the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race,
all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
- Winston Churchill

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill

I am bored with it all.
- Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
- Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing -
after they've tried everything else.
- Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill

He has all of the virtues I dislike,
and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill

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

In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill

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

Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is
the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself
against the risk of being read.
- Winston Churchill

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

Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill

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.
- Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations
you destroy all respect for the law.
- Winston Churchill

"No comment" is a splendid expression.
I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill

I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill

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

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy
than to imprison a person
or keep him in prison because he is unpopular.
This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails,
and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years
to have breakfast together,
but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
- Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

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

The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality
by contact with this great novel land of yours
which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
- Winston Churchill

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable
than the fighting of elections.
- Winston Churchill

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

Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning
I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
- Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill

There are two things that are more difficult
than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you
and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill

We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile.
If you can't smile, grin.
If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
- Winston Churchill

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.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man.
Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill

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

Without tradition, art is a
flock of sheep without a shepherd.
Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill

I have taken more out of alcohol
than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill

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

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