Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 5 of 10

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

204. “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

— Winston Churchill

205. “A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

207. “At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.”

— Winston Churchill

208. “Democracy means that when there’s a knock in the door at 3 am, it’s probably the milkman.”

— Winston Churchill

209. “The reservist is twice the citizen.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

211. “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

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. “All the great things are simple.”

— Winston Churchill

214. “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

215. “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

216. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

222. “No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

227. “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

228. “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

229. “To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

231. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

238. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

241. “Leadership is the intelligent use of power.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

243. “Air power may either end war or end civilization.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

245. “Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

247. “You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

250. “Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.”

— Winston Churchill