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Winston Churchill

1874-1965. Full name Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. British politician, twice Prime Minister of United Kingdom.

1. "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."

categories: Patriotism -:- Authority, Government

2. "We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

categories: Life and Death -:- Richness and Money

3. "We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm."

categories: Egoism

4. "Toilet paper too thin, newspapers too fat."

source: (on America)

categories: History and Nations -:- Various

5. "To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."

categories: Peace and War -:- Politics and Diplomacy

6. "The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is."

categories: Truth and Falsity

7. "The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience."

categories: Politics and Diplomacy

8. "The price of greatness is responsibility."

categories: Success and Fame -:- Talent and Genius

9. "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."

categories: Authority, Government -:- Power and Weakness

10. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter."

categories: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy

11. "Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."

categories: Success and Fame

12. "Responsibility is the price of greatness."

categories: Talent and Genius -:- Various

13. "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."

categories: Truth and Falsity

14. "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."

categories: Destiny and Fate

15. "In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left."

categories: Peace and War

16. "If you are going through hell, keep going."

categories: Pain and Tears

17. "I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me."

categories: Health and Alcohol

18. "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

categories: Pain and Tears

19. "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."

categories: History and Nations

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20. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

source: speech at Fulton, Missouri, 1946

categories: History and Nations

21. "For myself, I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."

categories: Optimism and Hope

22. "Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."

categories: Manners and Ethics

23. "Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

categories: Nature and Animals

24. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Oration and Silence

25. "Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war."

categories: History and Nations -:- Peace and War

26. "At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point."

categories: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy

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

categories: Various

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