Quotes from Winston Churchill

Anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

I only belive in statistics I doctored myself

There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery — a spirit which resents individual opinion, which clamours for uniformity and political Test Acts.

Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Whether you believe or disbelieve, it is a wicked thing to take away Man's hope.

Good riddance to that wuthering height.

We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest.

Never, never, never give up.

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

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