Quotes by

Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. – Winston Churchill

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. – Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. – Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. – Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others. – Winston Churchill

To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. – Winston Churchill

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. – Winston Churchill

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. – Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. – Winston Churchill

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. – Winston Churchill

I am easily satisfied with the very best. – Winston Churchill

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. – Winston Churchill

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us. – Winston Churchill

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. – Winston Churchill

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. – Winston Churchill

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. – Winston Churchill