Top 500 Winston Churchill Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.”

— Winston Churchill

302. “Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.”

— Winston Churchill

303. “Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing – after exhausting every other possible alternative.”

— Winston Churchill

304. “To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”

— Winston Churchill

305. “Watch your character for your character is your destiny.”

— Winston Churchill

306. “I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.”

— Winston Churchill

307. “Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”

— Winston Churchill

308. “Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life’s journey.”

— Winston Churchill

309. “The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.”

— Winston Churchill

310. “Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.”

— Winston Churchill

311. “There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.”

— Winston Churchill

312. “I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.”

— Winston Churchill

313. “The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, “God save the Queen”; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister.”

— Winston Churchill

314. “No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.”

— Winston Churchill

315. “Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them.”

— Winston Churchill

316. “At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.”

— Winston Churchill

317. “Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!”

— Winston Churchill

318. “A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.”

— Winston Churchill

319. “Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.”

— Winston Churchill

320. “The day may dawn when fair play, love for one’s fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair.”

— Winston Churchill

321. “There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble.”

— Winston Churchill

322. “I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.”

— Winston Churchill

323. “An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.”

— Winston Churchill

324. “Don’t take ‘no’ for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. 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 events.”

— Winston Churchill

325. “The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.”

— Winston Churchill

326. “A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.”

— Winston Churchill

327. “What a fool I have been!”

— Winston Churchill

328. “Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?”

— Winston Churchill

329. “The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.”

— Winston Churchill

330. “Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”

— Winston Churchill

331. “I’m just preparing my impromptu remarks.”

— Winston Churchill

332. “Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.”

— Winston Churchill

333. “If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.”

— Winston Churchill

334. “Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.”

— Winston Churchill

335. “We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.”

— Winston Churchill

336. “We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.”

— Winston Churchill

337. “Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.”

— Winston Churchill

338. “We must build a kind of United States of Europe.”

— Winston Churchill

339. “When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”

— Winston Churchill

340. “It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.”

— Winston Churchill

341. “Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”

— Winston Churchill

342. “I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”

— Winston Churchill

343. “If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.”

— Winston Churchill

344. “The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there’s no limit to the power it can generate.”

— Winston Churchill

345. “I get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.”

— Winston Churchill

346. “Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.”

— Winston Churchill

347. “Sunshine is my quest.”

— Winston Churchill

348. “Remember gentleman, it’s not just France we’re fighting for, it’s Champagne!”

— Winston Churchill

349. “The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.”

— Winston Churchill

350. “There are bitter weeds in England.”

— Winston Churchill