Quotes by Winston Churchill

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

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

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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

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

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

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

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

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

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.

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

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

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

Politics is 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.

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

Never, never, never give up.

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