Sir Winston Churchill

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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Sir Winston ChurchillA love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. Sir Winston ChurchillAll great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Sir Winston ChurchillAlthough prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Sir Winston ChurchillAn appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Sir Winston ChurchillBroadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Sir Winston Churchill Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. Sir Winston Churchill From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. Sir Winston ChurchillHe has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Sir Winston Churchill History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Sir Winston Churchill However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. Sir Winston ChurchillI cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. Sir Winston ChurchillI have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. Sir Winston ChurchillI like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. 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 ChurchillIt 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 ChurchillIt's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. Sir Winston Churchill Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. Sir Winston Churchill Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. Sir Winston ChurchillNever, 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 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 ChurchillPersonally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Sir Winston ChurchillSuccess is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. Sir Winston Churchill The price of greatness is responsibility. Sir Winston ChurchillThe reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. Sir Winston Churchill There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. Sir Winston ChurchillTo build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Sir Winston ChurchillWe make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Sir Winston Churchill When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. Sir Winston Churchill When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. Sir Winston Churchill

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