Quotes by Winston Churchill

“The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.”

“Why, you may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears”

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

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have”

“We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm.”

“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”

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

“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”

“We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, 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.”

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

“We shall neither fail nor falter; we shall not weaken or tire...give us the tools and we will finish the job.”

“Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.”

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish theyd make up their minds.”

“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained”

“To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there.”

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

“The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.”

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”

“No matter what youve done for yourself or for humanity, if you cant look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?”