Winston Churchill Quotes

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.

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.

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.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us now. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age, made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.’

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.