Quotes By Winston Churchill

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

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

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

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.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.