Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

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

Meeting Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing Stalin was like drinking a whole bottle of vodka.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

When I was younger, I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes; it would spread a lively terror.

I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

I do not admit that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly-wise race, to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

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

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried.

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.

The British character is a mixture of being very brave and very stupid.

The utmost force should be used.

The English are not a race. They are a community.

I am certainly not one of those who would be content to see the British Empire dissolved, its glory departed, and its people sunk in the squalor of a common European citizenship.