Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential. – Winston Churchill
A joke is a very serious thing. – Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors. – Winston Churchill
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. – Winston Churchill
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. – Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. – Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. – Winston Churchill
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived. – Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel. – Winston Churchill
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. – Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. – Winston Churchill
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. – Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as a good tax. – Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. – Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the same man. – Winston Churchill
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. – Winston Churchill
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. – Winston Churchill
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. – Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. – Winston Churchill