Winston Churchill Quotes

Save The (Old) World

Winston Churchill — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:48:29 +0000

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Vocabulary of Truth

Winston Churchill — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:22:08 +0000

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Criticism

Winston Churchill — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:22:35 +0000

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.

An Angry Man

Winston Churchill — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:22:43 +0000

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Battles and Slaughter

Winston Churchill — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:25:36 +0000

Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre. The greater the general, the more he contributes in manoeuvre, the less he demands in slaughter.

The Human Race

Winston Churchill — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:31:58 +0000

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Perfect Democracy

Winston Churchill — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 03:24:11 +0000

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 other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Harbour of Safety

Winston Churchill — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 15:55:27 +0000

We have surmounted all the perils and endured all the agonies of the past. We shall provide against and thus prevail over the dangers and problems of the future, withhold no sacrifice, grudge no toil, seek no sordid gain, fear no foe. All will be well. We have, I believe, within us the life-strength and guiding light by which the tormented world around us may find the harbour of safety, after a storm-beaten voyage.

Grinning war

Winston Churchill — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 15:57:06 +0000

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.

Bad Tax

Winston Churchill — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 02:22:15 +0000

There is no such thing as a good tax.