Best Winston Churchill Quotes

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, 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.

Once upon a time all the animals in the zoo decided that they would disarm, and they arranged to have a conference to arrange the matter. So the Rhinoceros said when he opened the proceedings that the use of teeth was barbarous and horrible and ought to be strictly prohibited by general consent. Horns, which were mainly defensive weapons, would, of course, have to be allowed. The Buffalo, the Stag, the Porcupine, and even the little Hedgehog all said they would vote with the Rhino, but the Lion and the Tiger took a different view. They defended teeth and even claws, which they described as honourable weapons of immemorial antiquity. The Panther, the Leopard, the Puma, and the whole tribe of small cats all supported the Lion and the Tiger. Then the Bear spoke. He proposed that both teeth and horns should be banned and never used again for fighting by any animal. It would be quite enough if animals were allowed to give each other a good hug when they quarreled. No one could object to that. It was so fraternal, and that would be a great step towards peace. However, all the other animals were very offended with the Bear, and the Turkey fell into a perfect panic. The discussion got so hot and angry, and all those animals began thinking so much about horns and teeth and hugging when they argued about the peaceful intentions that had brought them together that they began to look at one another in a very nasty way. Luckily the keepers were able to calm them down and persuade them to go back quietly to their cages, and they began to feel quite friendly with one another again.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Gods good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.

"If you put two economists in a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions."

The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

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

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

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

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind.

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. -- About Russia

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

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

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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

The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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

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

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

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.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.

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

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

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

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

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.