Quotes from Winston Churchill

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them...let them be your friends.

Once in a while we will stumble upon the truth, but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing happened.

L'influence de cette religion paralyse le développement social de ses fidèles Il n'existe pas de plus puissante force rétrograde dans le monde.Si la Chrétienté n'était protégée par les bras puissants de la Science, la civilisation de l'Europe moderne pourrait tomber, comme tomba celle de la Rome antique.

There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery — a spirit which resents individual opinion, which clamours for uniformity and political Test Acts.

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you will find on the pillow.

Truth is the most valuable thing in the world but often times is hidden by a bodyguard of lies.

Of this I am quite sure. If we open up a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate trooper from the American Civil War.

Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Whether you believe or disbelieve, it is a wicked thing to take away Man's hope.

Sometimes our best isn't good enough. SOmetimes we must do what is required

Good riddance to that wuthering height.

If your going through hell, keep going.

Il migliore argomento contro la democrazia è una conversazione di cinque minuti con l'elettore medio.

Whatever one may think about democratic government, it is just as well to have practical experience of its rough and slatternly foundations. No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. Here

We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

Never, never, never give up.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.