Quotes by Winston Churchill

About Winston Churchill:

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't 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

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

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

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

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

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

Winston Churchill

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

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

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

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

Winston Churchill

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

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

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Winston Churchill

Author Bio

  • NameWinston Churchill
  • DescriptionPrime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II
  • AliasesSir Winston Churchill; Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill; The Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill; Colonel Warden
  • BornNovember 30, 1874
  • DiedJanuary 24, 1965
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPolitician; Journalist; Painter; Historian; Autobiographer
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature; Companion Of The Liberation; Fellow Of The Royal Society; Grand Cross Of The Order Of The Oak Crown; Honorary Citizen Of The United States; Order Of The White Lion; Charlemagne Prize; ; Order Of St. Olav; Freedom Award