Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill: The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill: Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Winston Churchill: History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill: We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill: Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill: When I get to heaven, I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting

Winston Churchill: You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.

Winston Churchill: We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill: Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Winston Churchill: He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Winston Churchill: Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential

Winston Churchill: You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill: A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill: I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill: Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Winston Churchill: I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Winston Churchill: I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

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

Winston Churchill: Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Winston Churchill: Great and good are seldom the same man.

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

Winston Churchill: Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill: We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Winston Churchill: It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

Winston Churchill: My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill: When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

Winston Churchill: Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.

Winston Churchill: Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill: To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill: History is written by the victors.

Winston Churchill: Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Winston Churchill: The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill: Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill: We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Winston Churchill: I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Winston Churchill: There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

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

Winston Churchill: Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Winston Churchill: Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.