Winston Churchill
British PM during WWII
Sayings by Winston Churchill
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
I have never accepted the idea that we are in a position of inferiority to any other power in the world.
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
Where there is great power, there is great responsibility.
No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
The English are not a logical people. They are a historical people.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.
Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting you.
War is a game played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Some people like the Jews and some do not; but no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are beyond all question the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.