Quotes from Winston Churchill

Patience is sorrow's salve.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.