Winston S. Churchill Quotes

If you are going through hell, keep going.

~ Winston S. Churchill

It is not enough that we do our best, sometimes we must do what is required.

~ Winston S. 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.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without vicory there is no survival.

~ Winston S. Churchill

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

~ Winston S. Churchill

I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations

~ Winston S. Churchill

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

~ Winston S. Churchill

They said it was only a ground shark, but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.

~ Winston S. Churchill

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.

~ Winston S. Churchill

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

~ Winston S. Churchill

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

~ Winston S. Churchill

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

~ Winston S. Churchill

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

~ Winston S. 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 S. Churchill

I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

~ Winston S. Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

~ Winston S. Churchill

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

~ Winston S. Churchill

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

~ Winston S. Churchill

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

~ Winston S. Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

~ Winston S. Churchill

A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

~ Winston S. Churchill

I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

~ Winston S. Churchill

Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.

~ Winston S. Churchill

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

~ Winston S. Churchill