Winston Churchill

British Statesman & Prime Minister ( 1874-1965)

WINSTON CHURCHILL

* The price of greatness is responsibility.

*Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

*Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.

*We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

*Most people, sometime in their lives, stumble across truth. Most jump up, brush themselves off, and hurry on about their business as if nothing had happened.

* Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.


* If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

*Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

*War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

*A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

*Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ''This was their finest hour.''

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

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

* Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

*Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

*It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

*The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

* The English never draw a line without blurring it.

*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.

* Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

* All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

*Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

* Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

* Those who forget history are bound to repeat it.