Sir Winston Churchill Quotes

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. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point.

By Sir Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.

By Sir Winston Churchill

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

By Sir Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

By Sir Winston Churchill

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

By Sir Winston Churchill

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

By Sir Winston Churchill

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

By Sir Winston Churchill

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

By Sir Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.

By Sir Winston Churchill

Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

By Sir Winston Churchill

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

By Sir Winston Churchill

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

By Sir Winston Churchill

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

By Sir Winston Churchill

Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.

By Sir Winston Churchill

Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height

By Sir Winston Churchill

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

By Sir Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

By Sir Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender.

By Sir Winston Churchill

We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

By Sir Winston Churchill

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.

By Sir Winston Churchill

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

By Sir Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

By Sir Winston Churchill

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

By Sir Winston Churchill

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gongthese are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

By Sir Winston Churchill

Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness. A sincere love of peace is no excuse for muddling hundreds of millions of humble folk into total war. The cheers of the weak, well-meaning assemblies soon cease to count. Doom marches on.

By Sir Winston Churchill

To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

By Sir Winston Churchill

This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.

By Sir Winston Churchill

There but for the grace of God goes God.

By Sir Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

By Sir Winston Churchill

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

By Sir Winston Churchill