Winston Churchill Quotes

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill

Him, Knowing, Drinking

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill

Else, Seem, Optimist

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

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill

War, Him, Fails

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.
Winston Churchill

Life, Before, After

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

Politics, Business, Game

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill

Learning, Learn, Ready

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill

War, Truth, She

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

Government, Democracy, Others

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill

Heart, Suffering, Means

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill

Forward, Farther, Backward

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

Greatness, Price

Politics is 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

Politics, Tomorrow, Happen

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill

Girl, Two, Away

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

Architecture, Buildings, Shape

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill

Against, Wind, Rise

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill

Single, May, Act

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill

Game, Play, Learn

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

History, Write, Intend

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston Churchill

War, Wise, Winning

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

Courage, Human, Others

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Statesman

Born: November 30, 1874

Died: January 24, 1965

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