Quotes by Winston Churchill

“Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.”

“Please be good enough to put your conclusions and recommendations on one sheet of paper in the very beginning of your report, so I can even consider reading it”

“A politician needs 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 didnt happen.”

“The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate.”

“My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties.”

“The first quality that is needed is audacity.”

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.”

“Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

“Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of lifes problems.”

“Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”

“Dont talk to me about Naval tradition! Its nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash”

“Great and good are seldom the same man.”

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

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

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.”

“Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.”

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

“The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground”

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