Winston Churchill Quotes

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”

“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.”

“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.”

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

“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”

“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.”

“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”

“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.”

“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.”

“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”

“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”

“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honour, duty, mercy, hope.”

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.”

“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”