Winston Churchill Quotes

“Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.”

“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.”

“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

“It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time: a tremendous whack.”

“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”

“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.”

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

“We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”

“The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are.”

“I like a man who grins when he fights.”

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”