Quotes from Winston Churchill

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.

I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.

Socialism would gather all power to the supreme party and party leaders, rising like stately pinnacles above their vast bureaucracies of civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

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

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained