Winston Churchill Quotes

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

Pain, Human, May

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill

Put, Ending, Sentence

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

Time, Important, Try

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.
Winston Churchill

Human, Personal, Obstacles

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

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

Blessings, Socialism, Capitalism

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill

Pessimist, Optimist, Difficulty

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill

Politics, Respect, Law

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.
Winston Churchill

Long, Hard, May

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

Future, Past, Lost

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

Pet, Down, Treat

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill

Politics, Greatest, Country

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill

Tomorrow, Happen, Why

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill

Wise, Difficult, Ahead

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill

Beautiful, Results, However

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill

Men, Truth, Nothing

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill

Inside, Mystery, Russia

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

Success, Best, Saying

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill

Saint Patrick's Day, Found, Irish

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill

Best, Satisfied, Easily

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill

War, Human, Few

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill

Great, Another, Matter

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill

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

Others, Everyone, Last

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill

Strong, Often, Silent

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Statesman

Born: November 30, 1874

Died: January 24, 1965

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