Quotees Archive

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

- Winston Churchill

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

- Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings, the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

- Winston Churchill

The invaders brought into Britain a principle common to all Germanic tribes, namely, the use of the money power to regulate all the legal relations of men. If there was any equality it was equality within each social grade. If there was liberty it was mainly liberty for the rich. If there were rights they were primarily the rights of property. There was no crime committed which could not be compounded by a money payment.

- Winston Churchill

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

- Winston Churchill

The longer you look back, the farther you can look forward.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

- Winston Churchill

Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is–the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

- Winston Churchill

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

- Winston Churchill

Spare the conquered and confront the proud.

- Winston Churchill

St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.

- Winston Churchill

Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

- Winston Churchill

Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders’ hearth.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

Success always demands a greater effort.

- Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

- Winston Churchill

Success is not final…Failure is not fatal…it’s the courage to continue that counts.

- Winston Churchill

Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

- Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

- Winston Churchill

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

- Winston Churchill

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

- Winston Churchill

Ten or twelve men, especially between brothers and between fathers and sons; but the offspring of these unions are counted as the children of the man with whom a particular woman cohabited first.

- Winston Churchill

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.

- Winston Churchill

People stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

- Winston Churchill

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

- Winston Churchill

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

- Winston Churchill

Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

- Winston Churchill

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 didn’t happen.

- Winston Churchill

Projects undreamed of by past generations will absorb our immediate descendants, comforts, activities, amenities, pleasures will crowd upon them, but their hearts will ache and their lives will be barren, if they have not a vision above material things.

- Winston Churchill

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

- Winston Churchill

Resposibility is the price of greatness.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Winston Churchill

Safari, so goody.

- Winston Churchill

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.

- Winston Churchill

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

- Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery..

- Winston Churchill

Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.

- Winston Churchill

Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] … by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks … to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.

- Winston Churchill

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

- Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

- Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

- Winston Churchill

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

- Winston Churchill