Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Quotes

• The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

• History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

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

• We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glow-worm.

• Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

• I am easily satisfied with the very best.

• Why, you can take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears.

• Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities.

• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

• I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

• I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

• 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 'til you can.

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

• Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.

• Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

• Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

• If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

• He is a very modest man with a great deal to be modest about.

• The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves.