Winston Churchill Quotes
25 quotes
Winston Churchill
British leader known for wartime resolve and inspiring rhetoric
25 Quotes
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
— Speech, House of Commons, Battle of Britain, 1940
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
— Speech, House of Commons, February 27, 1945
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all
— Speech to the Royal Literary Society
Never, never, never give in.
— Speech, Harrow School, 1941
You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
— Attributed, cited in 'Churchill: The Power of Words'
All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
— Speech, House of Commons, June 17, 1941
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
— House of Commons, October 22, 1945
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.
— Speech, House of Commons, 1941
If you're going through hell, keep going
— Attributed, wartime remarks, 1940s
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind
— Speech at Harvard University, 6 September 1943
You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be
— First Speech as Prime Minister, House of Commons, 13 May 1940
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it
— The Second World War (Book Series)
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes
— My Early Life
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Iron Curtain Speech, Fulton, March 5, 1946
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give
— Speech, House of Commons, 1908
Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried
— House of Commons Speech, 1947
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it
— Collected Essays
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts
— Speech, University of Bristol, 1941
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often
— Speech, House of Commons, 1914
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
— Speech, House of Commons, 1940
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us
— Speech to the House of Commons, 28 October 1943
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
— Speech, Mansion House, 1942
The price of greatness is responsibility.
— Book, Great Contemporaries
Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge
— Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 November 1942
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
— Attributed in various speeches and interviews, most notably during the 1930s