Winston Churchill Quotes

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

"No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity."

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

"[Playing golf is] like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture."

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''"

"[And a pamphlet called] Pick me up ... There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler."

"Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were my wife, I would drink it!"

"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."

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

"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."

"We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow worm."

"It becomes still more difficult to reconcile Japanese action with prudence or even sanity. What kind of people do they think we are?"

"They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

"At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper."

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

"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!"

"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."

"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

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