Quotes by Winston Churchill

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People say we ought not to allow ourselves to be drawn into a theoretical antagonism between Nazidom and democracy. But the antagonism is here now. It is this very conflict of spiritual and moral ideas which gives the free countries a great part of their strength.
--Winston Churchill

Victory is never final. Defeat is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
--Winston Churchill

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.
--Winston Churchill

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
--Winston Churchill

Is it the only lesson of history that mankind is unteachable?
--Winston Churchill

It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as folly.
--Winston Churchill

...I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big.
--Winston Churchill

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
--Winston Churchill

The flame of Christian ethics is still our best guide... only on this basis can we reconcile the rights of the individual with the demands of society.
--Winston Churchill

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

If I were asked the difference between Socialism and Communism, I could only reply that the Socialist tries to lead us to disaster by foolish words and the Communist could try to drive us there by violent deeds.
--Winston Churchill

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman--they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.
--Winston Churchill

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.
--Winston Churchill

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
--Winston Churchill

Time is neutral; but it can be made the ally of those who will seize it and use it to the full.
--Winston Churchill

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.
--Winston Churchill

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.
--Winston Churchill

You cannot cure cancer by a majority. What is wanted is a remedy.
--Winston Churchill

At Blenheim I took two very important decisions: to be born and marry. I am content with the decision I took on both occasions. I have never had cause to regret either.
--Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last.
--Winston Churchill

The honourable gentleman is never fortuitous in the coincidence of his facts with truth.
--Winston Churchill

[Civilization is] a state of society where moral force begins to escape from the tyranny of physical force.
--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 short road to ruin is to emulate... the methods of your adversary.
--Winston Churchill

War is horrible but slavery is worse.
--Winston Churchill