Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2024 Update)
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451. “The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.”

— Winston Churchill

452. “As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”

— Winston Churchill

453. “I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

— Winston Churchill

454. “The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.”

— Winston Churchill

455. “We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.”

— Winston Churchill

456. “I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.”

— Winston Churchill

457. “We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

459. “Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.”

— Winston Churchill

460. “The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.”

— Winston Churchill

461. “If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.”

— Winston Churchill

462. “There is no sphere of human thought in which it is easier to show superficial cleverness and the appearance of superior wisdom than in discussing questions of currency and exchange.”

— Winston Churchill

463. “When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne.”

— Winston Churchill

464. “Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.”

— Winston Churchill

465. “It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.”

— Winston Churchill

466. “Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.”

— Winston Churchill

467. “You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it was they who made it famous.”

— Winston Churchill

468. “Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!”

— Winston Churchill

469. “All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.”

— Winston Churchill

470. “A sheep in sheep’s clothing.”

— Winston Churchill

471. “To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.”

— Winston Churchill

472. “My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.”

— Winston Churchill

473. “Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”

— Winston Churchill

474. “You know, in war, you don’t have to be nice. You only have to be right.”

— Winston Churchill

475. “Hess or no Hess, I’m going to watch the Marx Brothers.”

— Winston Churchill

476. “Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.”

— Winston Churchill

477. “A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.”

— Winston Churchill

478. “Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.”

— Winston Churchill

479. “When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men’s souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.”

— Winston Churchill

480. “One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.”

— Winston Churchill

481. “One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.”

— Winston Churchill

482. “Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.”

— Winston Churchill

483. “With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century.”

— Winston Churchill

484. “Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

— Winston Churchill

485. “And what a plan! This vast operation is undoubtedly the most complicated and difficult that has ever occurred.”

— Winston Churchill

486. “Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.”

— Winston Churchill

487. “Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.”

— Winston Churchill

488. “Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you’ll find on the pillow.”

— Winston Churchill

489. “The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.”

— Winston Churchill

490. “The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis – still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.”

— Winston Churchill

491. “When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.”

— Winston Churchill

492. “If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.”

— Winston Churchill

493. “People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.”

— Winston Churchill

494. “This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.”

— Winston Churchill

495. “There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, and timid policies offer a path to safety.”

— Winston Churchill

496. “The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.”

— Winston Churchill

497. “An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.”

— Winston Churchill

498. “History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.”

— Winston Churchill

499. “Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!”

— Winston Churchill

500. “The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.”

— Winston Churchill