Famous Quotes by Winston Churchill

  • All his usual formalites of perfidy were observed with scrupulous technique. More
  • I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. More
  • We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the... More
  • Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire... More
  • I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate. More
  • Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire... More
  • The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less... More
  • The English never draw a line without blurring it. More
  • It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty’s Government be classified as slavery in the extreme... More
  • These are not dark days: these are great days—the greatest days our country has ever lived. More
  • Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save... More
  • He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, “Before they get up, they do not know what... More
  • This is no war for domination or imperial aggrandisement or material gain.... It is a war ... to... More
  • We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds... More
  • There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. More
  • India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. More
  • It is ... alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now... More
  • We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect. More
  • Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. More
  • The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age. More
  • A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory.... From Stettin in... More
  • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. More
  • The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards... More
  • It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.... The quotations, when... More
  • India is an abstraction.... India is no more a political personality than Europe. India is a... More
  • In defeat unbeatable: in victory unbearable. More
  • He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about. More
  • Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the... More
  • Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. More
  • A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. More
  • An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. More
  • This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. More
  • Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. More
  • Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a... More
  • Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of... More
  • If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of... More
  • Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace:... More
  • We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us. More

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