Quotes from Winston S. Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.

It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea. Churchill's response, Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

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

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

You create your own universe as you go along.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

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

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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