Quotes about Winston Churchill

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism. (Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)

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

To Admiral Cunningham it was against all tradition to abandon the Army in such a crisis. He declared, "It takes the Navy three years to build a new ship. It will take three hundred years to build a new tradition.

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.

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

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice.

Truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.

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

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?