Winston Churchill Quotes

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.

Family and Home

Winston Churchill — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:22:32 +0000

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.

True Genius

Winston Churchill — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:44:51 +0000

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

US Allies

Winston Churchill — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 15:42:42 +0000

To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!…Hitler’s fate was sealed. Mussolini’s fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder.

Responsibility

Winston Churchill — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 15:40:28 +0000

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Fire and Steel

Winston Churchill — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:27:37 +0000

The Germans have received back again that measure of fire and steel which they have so often meted out to others. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.