Winston Churchill Quotes

"To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne."

"Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it."

"The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate."

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

"Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation."

"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds."

"Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."

"Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested"

"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."

"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened"

"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times."

"Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential"

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."

"It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of another."

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"Never, never, never, never give up."

"There is no such thing as a good tax."

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things."