Quotes from Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.