Winston Churchill Quotes

Failure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.

I may be drunk, miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Never,never,never,never,never, never,never give up!

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

There is no halting-place at this point. We have now reached a stage in the journey where there can be no pause.

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The first lesson that you must learn is that, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

The power of the Executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government.

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

The maxim ‘Nothing avails but perfection’ may be spelt shorter: ‘Paralysis.’

Never give in — never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.