Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2025 Update)
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251. “There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it.”

— Winston Churchill

252. “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

253. “Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.”

— Winston Churchill

254. “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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

260. “Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.”

— Winston Churchill

261. “Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I’d poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I’d drink it.”

— Winston Churchill

262. “When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.”

— Winston Churchill

263. “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.”

— Winston Churchill

264. “Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.”

— Winston Churchill

265. “You leave out God, and you substitute the devil.”

— Winston Churchill

266. “War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.”

— Winston Churchill

267. “No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

— Winston Churchill

268. “Never run away from anything. Never!”

— Winston Churchill

269. “Unpunctuality is a vile habit.”

— Winston Churchill

270. “There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England.”

— Winston Churchill

271. “Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.”

— Winston Churchill

272. “Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems – or it may be the same problem – will be presented to every generation in different forms.”

— Winston Churchill

273. “After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.”

— Winston Churchill

274. “The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.”

— Winston Churchill

275. “I’m so bored with it all.”

— Winston Churchill

276. “Never engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed man.”

— Winston Churchill

277. “The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.”

— Winston Churchill

278. “Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl – no superior alternative has yet been found.”

— Winston Churchill

279. “In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.”

— Winston Churchill

280. “There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.”

— Winston Churchill

281. “Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.”

— Winston Churchill

282. “There but for the grace of God, goes God.”

— Winston Churchill

283. “I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

— Winston Churchill

284. “Things do not get better by being left alone.”

— Winston Churchill

285. “It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.”

— Winston Churchill

286. “No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.”

— Winston Churchill

287. “In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action.”

— Winston Churchill

288. “Wars are not won by evacuations.”

— Winston Churchill

289. “These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

— Winston Churchill

290. “An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.”

— Winston Churchill

291. “I think a curse should rest on me – because I love this war. I know it’s smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment – and yet – I can’t help it – I enjoy every second of it.”

— Winston Churchill

292. “When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was ‘Still?’”

— Winston Churchill

293. “The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.”

— Winston Churchill

294. “A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.”

— Winston Churchill

295. “Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?”

— Winston Churchill

296. “If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.”

— Winston Churchill

297. “Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”

— Winston Churchill

298. “Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.”

— Winston Churchill

299. “Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.”

— Winston Churchill

300. “Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.”

— Winston Churchill