Sir Winston Churchill Quotes

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
-Sir Winston Churchill in History quotes.

"Success is never final."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
-Sir Winston Churchill in Optimism quotes.

"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
-Sir Winston Churchill in Success quotes.

"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."
-Sir Winston Churchill in Mercy quotes.

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

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

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"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 didn't happen."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
-Sir Winston Churchill

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

"[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"'Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.'"
-Sir Winston Churchill

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age.... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will say, This was their finest hour."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"There but for the grace of God goes God."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"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."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
-Sir Winston Churchill

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

"So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."
-Sir Winston Churchill

"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
-Sir Winston Churchill in War quotes.

"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."
-Sir Winston Churchill