Quotes from Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.

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

It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World War could have been prevented; how the malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous...

As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.

We are the masters of our fate.

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.

I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.

The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful for impotency. And so we go on preparing more months more years precious perhaps vital for the greatness of Britain for the locusts to eat. - Speaking in the Address in Reply debate, after giving some specific instances of Germany's war preparedness

Success is not final, failure is not fatal