Quotes from Winston Churchill

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

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

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Saving is a very fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.