Quotes by

Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, dont 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. – Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you cant smile, grin. If you cant grin, keep out of the way till you can. – Winston Churchill

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didnt happen. – Winston Churchill

If youre going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemys aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. – Winston Churchill

You have enemies? Good. That means youve stood up for something, sometime in your life. – Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who cant change his mind and wont change the subject. – Winston Churchill

It is no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. – Winston Churchill

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. – Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, 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. – Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. – Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. – Winston Churchill

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. – Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. – Winston Churchill

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. – Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. – Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. – Winston Churchill

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. – Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. – Winston Churchill