Quotes from Winston Churchill
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
There but for the grace of God goes God.
- Winston Churchill
To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.
- Winston Churchill
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
- Winston Churchill
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations, as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
- Winston Churchill
We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
- Winston Churchill
In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.
- Winston Churchill
Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.
- Winston Churchill
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill