Winston Churchill Quotes

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

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

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

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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

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

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.