Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.”

— Winston Churchill

52. “The Fascists of the future will be the anti-fascists.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

54. “The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

— Winston Churchill

55. “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

— Winston Churchill

56. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

— Winston Churchill

57. “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

— Winston Churchill

58. “All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.”

— Winston Churchill

59. “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

— Winston Churchill

60. “The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.”

— Winston Churchill

61. “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”

— Winston Churchill

62. “Show me a young Conservative and I’ll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I’ll show you someone with no brains.”

— Winston Churchill

63. “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

— Winston Churchill

64. “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.”

— Winston Churchill

65. “We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”

— Winston Churchill

66. “We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

— Winston Churchill

67. “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”

— Winston Churchill

68. “If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.”

— Winston Churchill

69. “When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”

— Winston Churchill

70. “If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time – a tremendous whack.”

— Winston Churchill

71. “In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Good Will.”

— Winston Churchill

72. “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

— Winston Churchill

73. “Our future is in our hands. Our lives are what we choose to make them.”

— Winston Churchill

74. “Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”

— Winston Churchill

75. “Good and great are seldom in the same man.”

— Winston Churchill

76. “Most of the world’s work is done by people who don’t feel very well.”

— Winston Churchill

77. “Don’t interrupt me while I’m interrupting.”

— Winston Churchill

78. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

— Winston Churchill

79. “The most important thing about education is appetite.”

— Winston Churchill

80. “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

82. “A joke is a very serious thing.”

— Winston Churchill

83. “The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

85. “Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”

— Winston Churchill

86. “Islam to a man is like rabies to a dog.”

— Winston Churchill

87. “Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.”

— Winston Churchill

88. “When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”

— Winston Churchill

89. “A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

— Winston Churchill

90. “A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”

— Winston Churchill

91. “There comes into the life of every man a task for which he and he alone is uniquely suited. What a shame if that moment finds him either unwilling or unprepared for that which would become his finest hour.”

— Winston Churchill

92. “I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.”

— Winston Churchill

93. “The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

96. “It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

— Winston Churchill

97. “Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

— Winston Churchill

98. “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.”

— Winston Churchill

99. “I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.”

— Winston Churchill

100. “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.”

— Winston Churchill