Winston Churchill Quotes

The master "Wordsmith" of all time


Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

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

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Winston Church

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchil

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill

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

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

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

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

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill


Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

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

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill

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

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston Churchi

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Winston Churchill

There is a book called "Churchill, A Life Triumphant", probably long out of print. Excellent read. See if you can find it.