Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2024 Update)
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201. “Democracy means that when there’s a knock in the door at 3 am, it’s probably the milkman.”

— Winston Churchill

202. “The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.”

— Winston Churchill

203. “If you destroy a free market you create a black market.”

— Winston Churchill

204. “Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don’t give in to them.”

— Winston Churchill

205. “Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear – I fear greatly – the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.”

— Winston Churchill

206. “Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government.”

— Winston Churchill

207. “Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.”

— Winston Churchill

208. “It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.”

— Winston Churchill

209. “My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

— Winston Churchill

210. “Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.”

— Winston Churchill

211. “If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.”

— Winston Churchill

212. “Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.”

— Winston Churchill

213. “You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.”

— Winston Churchill

214. “Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.”

— Winston Churchill

215. “All the great things are simple.”

— Winston Churchill

216. “Smoking Cigars is like falling in love. First, you are attracted by its shape; you stay for its flavor, and you must always remember never, never to let the flame go out!”

— Winston Churchill

217. “Good night, then – sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.”

— Winston Churchill

218. “Science should be on tap, not on top.”

— Winston Churchill

219. “Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.”

— Winston Churchill

220. “My education was interrupted only by my schooling.”

— Winston Churchill

221. “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.”

— Winston Churchill

222. “There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

224. “Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.”

— Winston Churchill

225. “Never flinch, never weary, never despair.”

— Winston Churchill

226. “Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted.”

— Winston Churchill

227. “One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.”

— Winston Churchill

228. “Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.”

— Winston Churchill

229. “The true guide of life is to do what is right.”

— Winston Churchill

230. “No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.”

— Winston Churchill

231. “Success is the ability to continue to move through total disaster.”

— Winston Churchill

232. “Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.”

— Winston Churchill

233. “The reservist is twice the citizen.”

— Winston Churchill

234. “Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.”

— Winston Churchill

235. “The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.”

— Winston Churchill

236. “The maxim, “Nothing prevails but perfection,” may be spelled PARALYSIS.”

— Winston Churchill

237. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.”

— Winston Churchill

238. “The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.”

— Winston Churchill

239. “Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...”

— Winston Churchill

240. “There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it.”

— Winston Churchill

241. “Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly.”

— Winston Churchill

242. “I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race.”

— Winston Churchill

243. “Nothing is perfect on the human stage...”

— Winston Churchill

244. “When we run out of money, we have to start thinking.”

— Winston Churchill

245. “There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies – And that is to fight without them.”

— Winston Churchill

246. “By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.”

— Winston Churchill

247. “There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.”

— Winston Churchill

248. “In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.”

— Winston Churchill

249. “True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”

— Winston Churchill

250. “I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.”

— Winston Churchill