Quotes from Winston Churchill

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Science should be on tap, not on top.

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.

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.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

I'm too busy. I have no time for worry.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

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

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.