Top 120 Winston S. Churchill Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “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

102. “What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”

— Winston S. Churchill

103. “In harsh or melancholy epochs free men may always take comfort from the grand lesson of history, that tyrannies cannot last except among servile races. The years which seem endless to those who endure them are but a flick of mischance in the journey. New and natural hopes leap from the human heart as every spring revives the cultivated soil and rewards the faithful, patient husbandmen.”

— Winston S. Churchill

104. “A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.”

— Winston S. Churchill

105. “Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders’ hearth.”

— Winston S. Churchill

106. “The truth deserves a bodyguard of lies.”

— Winston S. Churchill

107. “The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”

— Winston S. Churchill

108. “I have achieved a great deal to achieve nothing in the end.”

— Winston S. Churchill

109. “Bolshevism is not a policy; it is a disease. It is not a creed; it is a pestilence. It presents all the characteristics of a pestilence. It breaks out with great suddenness; it is violently contagious; it throws people into a frenzy of excitement; it spreads with extraordinary rapidity; the mortality is terrible; so that, after a while, like other pestilences, the disease tends to wear itself out.”

— Winston S. Churchill

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

— Winston S. Churchill

111. “The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.”

— Winston S. Churchill

112. “In the first three months of actual fighting from the last week in August to the end of November, when the German drive against the Channel ports had come to an end and the first great invasion was definitely arrested, the French lost in killed, prisoners and wounded 854,0001 men. In.”

— Winston S. Churchill

113. “Everything tends towards catastrophe and collapse. I am interested, geared up and happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?”

— Winston S. Churchill

114. “I am easily satisfied with the very best.”

— Winston S. Churchill

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

— Winston S. Churchill

116. “The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.”

— Winston S. Churchill

117. “A man may be poor; he may have nothing at all except his labour to sell; he may be a manual worker for a weekly wage, but in a free commonwealth he must enjoy as good a right as any lord, or prelate, or capitalist in the country to the integrity of his own political convictions.”

— Winston S. Churchill

118. “We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.”

— Winston S. Churchill

119. “There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one.”

— Winston S. Churchill

120. “A man will perhaps tolerate an offensive word applied to himself, but will be infuriated if his nation, his rank, or his profession is insulted.”

— Winston S. Churchill

121. “Of course the introduction of conscription at this stage did not give us an army. It only applied to the men of twenty years of age; they had still to be trained; and after they had been trained they had still to be armed.”

— Winston S. Churchill

122. “If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good he must be pole-axed.”

— Winston S. Churchill

123. “The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.”

— Winston S. Churchill

124. “If you are walking through hell, keep walking!”

— Winston S. Churchill

125. “The best evidence of the fairness of any settlement is the fact that it fully satisfies neither party.”

— Winston S. Churchill

126. “Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson.”

— Winston S. Churchill

127. “Wave after wave, dark with storm, crested with foam, surged towards the harbour in which we still sheltered. Should we drive out into the teeth of the gale, or should we bide contented where we were? Yet beyond the breakers was a great hope.”

— Winston S. Churchill

128. “A joke is a very serious thing.”

— Winston S. Churchill

129. “A large proportion of the population of religious countries pass their lives at leisure, supported by the patient labour of the devout.”

— Winston S. Churchill

130. “In war all repetitions are perilous. You can do many things with impunity if you do not keep on doing them over and over again.”

— Winston S. Churchill

131. “Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee, two of the. noblest men ever born on the American continent.”

— Winston S. Churchill

132. “Would you rise in the world? You must work while others amuse themselves. Are you desirous of a reputation for courage? You must risk your life. Would you be strong morally or physically? You must resist temptations. All this is paying in advance; that is prospective finance. Observe the other side of the picture; the bad things are paid for afterwards.”

— Winston S. Churchill

133. “We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box. And for this Audacity is the only ticket.”

— Winston S. Churchill

134. “Thereafter mighty forces were adrift, the void was open, and into that void after a pause there strode a maniac of ferocious genius, the repository and expression of the most virulent hatreds that have ever corroded the human breast – Corporal Hitler.”

— Winston S. Churchill

135. “Germany could not gain complete air superiority unless she could knock out our Air Force, and the aircraft industries, some vital portions of which are concentrated at Coventry and Birmingham.”

— Winston S. Churchill

136. “But if, on the contrary, you are inclined – late in life though it be – to reconnoitre a foreign sphere of limitless extent, then be persuaded that the first quality that is needed is Audacity.”

— Winston S. Churchill