Quotes from Winston Churchill

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

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

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

A gentleman is a man who is only rude when he intends to be.

Old men make war, young men fight and die

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

"Mr. Churchill you're drunk!" Mr. Churchill: "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly.

To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.

Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

If you are going to go through hell, keep going

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.