Winston Churchill Quotes

"People imagine that Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin arrived in Yalta with a blank sheet of paper to decide the fate of Europe. Nothing could be further from the truth."

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

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations."

"I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government, `I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.'"

"[Lady Nancy Astor:] Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee. ... Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."

"Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict? forit is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation andour altar."

"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right."

"The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor."

"The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak."

"The English never draw a line without blurring it."

"No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong."

"Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense"

"It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it."

"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."

"Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance."

"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time."

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

"Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

"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"

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