Quotes from Winston Churchill

The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

A joke is a very serious thing

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Freedom is not a matter of choice, it is a destined path, an undying yearning for the peace of one's soul until attainment.

I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

If youre going through hell, keep going.

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

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whiskey. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

There is nothing wrong with change...if it is in the right direction.

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speakin g world

Sunshine is my quest.

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future.

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.