3 December 2020 Winston Churchill I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
