Winston Churchill Quotes

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

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

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

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

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

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

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

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."

"Never, never, never give up."

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

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

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."

"History is written by the victors."

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."