Winston Churchill Quotes

"By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach."

"I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it."

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

"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril"

"Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

"Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

"At every crisis the Kaiser crumpled. In defeat he fled; in revolution he abdicated; in exile he remarried."

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

"Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend."

"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job."

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

"I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality."

"I shall always be glad to have seen it-for the same reason Papa gave for being glad to have seen Lisbon-namely, "that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again."

"He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about."

"I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit to me."

"Success is bounding from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm."

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

"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."

"Without courage all virtues lose their meaning."

"If you mean to profit, learn to please."