Top 120 Winston S. Churchill Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.”

— Winston S. Churchill

52. “Let it never be said that you crept into the crypt, crapped, and crept out again.”

— Winston S. Churchill

53. “Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

— Winston S. Churchill

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

— Winston S. Churchill

55. “All comes out even at the end of the day, and all will come out yet more even when all the days are ended.”

— Winston S. Churchill

56. “He mobilised the English language and sent it into battle.”

— Winston S. Churchill

57. “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”

— Winston S. Churchill

58. “But you ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.”

— Winston S. Churchill

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

— Winston S. Churchill

60. “It is where the balance quivers, and the proportions are veiled in mist, that the opportunity for world-saving decisions presents itself.”

— Winston S. Churchill

61. “There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The.”

— Winston S. Churchill

62. “The prejudice of the Americans against monarchy, which Mr. Lloyd George made no attempt to counteract, had made it clear to the beaten Empire that it would have better treatment from the Allies as a republic than as a monarchy. Wise policy would have crowned and fortified the Weimar Republic with a constitutional sovereign in the person of an infant grandson of the Kaiser, under a Council of Regency.”

— Winston S. Churchill

63. “Fascism was the shadow or ugly child of Communism.”

— Winston S. Churchill

64. “Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man.”

— Winston S. Churchill

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

— Winston S. Churchill

66. “Strange as it may seem, the Air Force, except in the air, is the least mobile of all the services. A squadron can reach its destination in a few hours, but its establishments, depots, fuel, spare parts, and workshops take many weeks, and even months, to develop.”

— Winston S. Churchill

67. “I’ve gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

— Winston S. Churchill

68. “Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”

— Winston S. Churchill

69. “An iron curtain is drawn down upon their front. We do not know what is going on behind.”

— Winston S. Churchill

70. “One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision. Life is a whole, and luck is a whole, and no part of them can be separated from the rest.”

— Winston S. Churchill

71. “Guard them well, admirals and captains, hardy tars and tall marines; guard them well and guide them true.”

— Winston S. Churchill

72. “But Governments and peoples do not always take rational decisions. Sometimes they take mad decisions, or one set of people get control who compel all others to obey and aid them in folly.”

— Winston S. Churchill

73. “An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, “If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea.” Churchill’s response, “Ma’am if you were my wife I would drink it.”

— Winston S. Churchill

74. “The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.”

— Winston S. Churchill

75. “In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.”

— Winston S. Churchill

76. “Mr. Attlee is a modest man with much to be modest about.”

— Winston S. Churchill

77. “The Bolsheviks do not represent Russia, they represent an international conception of human affairs entirely foreign and indeed hostile to anything we know of civilisation;.”

— Winston S. Churchill

78. “The worst quarrels only arise when both sides are equally in the right and in the wrong.”

— Winston S. Churchill

79. “Bolsheviks create their own difficulties which they successfully overcame later.”

— Winston S. Churchill

80. “In two or three minutes Mr. Roosevelt came through. “Mr. President, what’s this about Japan?” “It’s quite true,” he replied. “They have attacked us at Pearl Harbour. We are all in the same boat now.”

— Winston S. Churchill

81. “Libya, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Somaliland, nourished by Italian taxation, comprised a vast region in which nearly a quarter of a million Italian colonists toiled, and began to thrive, under the protection of more than four hundred thousand Italian and native troops.”

— Winston S. Churchill

82. “No one can tell that he may not some day set a stone rolling or take or neglect some ordinary step which in its consequences will alter the history of the world.”

— Winston S. Churchill

83. “Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die. But the influence of the religion paralyzes the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”

— Winston S. Churchill

84. “When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed... why should we fear for our future?”

— Winston S. Churchill

85. “Trying to maintain good relations with a Communist is like wooing a crocodile. You do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or to beat it over the head. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up!”

— Winston S. Churchill

86. “Cold steel and discipline and the slight capital surplus necessary to move and organise armies constituted the sole defences.”

— Winston S. Churchill

87. “If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.”

— Winston S. Churchill

88. “In one respect a cavalry charge is very like ordinary life. So long as you are all right, firmly in your saddle, your horse in hand, and well armed, lots of enemies will give you a wide berth. But as soon as you have lost a stirrup, have a rein cut, have dropped your weapon, are wounded, or your horse is wounded, then is the moment when from all quarters enemies rush upon you. Such.”

— Winston S. Churchill

89. “The camel once swallowed, the gnats went down easily enough.”

— Winston S. Churchill

90. “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong; and a boy deprived of a father’s care often develops, if he escape the perils of youth, an independence and vigour of thought which may restore in after life the heavy loss of early days.”

— Winston S. Churchill

91. “A prodigious event had happened. The monotony of toil and of the daily round was suddenly broken. Everything was strange and new. War aroused the primordial instincts of races born of strife. Adventure beckoned to her children. A larger, nobler life seemed to be about to open upon the world. But it was, in fact, only Death.”

— Winston S. Churchill

92. “Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.”

— Winston S. Churchill

93. “We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.”

— Winston S. Churchill

94. “One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, Wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, Are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.” – Lady Diana Cooper, 1965.”

— Winston S. Churchill

95. “Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.”

— Winston S. Churchill

96. “This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.”

— Winston S. Churchill

97. “Now all our hope is to regulate the unthinkable. Regulated unthinkability – that is the proposal now; and very soon it will be a question of making up our minds to unregulated unthinkability.”

— Winston S. Churchill

98. “He is no Socialist who will not sacrifice his Fatherland for the triumph of the Social Revolution.’ – LENIN.”

— Winston S. Churchill

99. “Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science – the science against which it had vainly struggled – the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.”

— Winston S. Churchill

100. “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 S. Churchill