01UndatedWant of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
02UndatedIf this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
03UndatedI have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be;In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
04UndatedMy wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
05UndatedMy most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry meWinston S. Churchill / quote ↗
06UndatedThere is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
07UndatedWhere does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
08UndatedYou make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
09UndatedDemocracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
10UndatedIf we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
11UndatedOf this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
13UndatedLogic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
14UndatedIf you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
15UndatedIn every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
16UndatedThe most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
17UndatedWe make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
18UndatedFrom now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
19Undated...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
20UndatedAlways remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
21UndatedChurchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... "Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?"Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the priceWinston S. Churchill / quote ↗
23UndatedWell, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
24UndatedMany forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."(Speech in the House of Commons, 11 November 1947)Winston S. Churchill / quote ↗
