Quotes from Winston Churchill

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained

The most important thing about education is appetite.

The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

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

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.