There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say…This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?' — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action. — Winston Churchill Copy Share