Sir Winston Churchill quotes

The idea that nothing is true except what we comprehend is silly.
Sir Winston Churchill

There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of
over-daring.
Sir Winston Churchill

I have no patience with people who are always raising difficulties.
Sir Winston Churchill

Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.
Sir Winston Churchill

How many wars have been averted by patience and good will?
Sir Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights.
Sir Winston Churchill

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Sir Winston Churchill

Happy are the painters for they shall not be lonely.
Sir Winston Churchill

It is a curious fact about the British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for a
nearly thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively
less nervous; when it is imminent they are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.
Sir Winston Churchill

The vice of capitalism is that it stands for the unequal sharing of blessings; whereas the
virtue of socialism is that it stands for the equal sharing of misery.
Sir Winston Churchill

Democracy is no harlot to be picked up on the street by a man with a tommy gun.
Sir Winston Churchill

Dangers which are warded off by effective precaution and foresight are never even remembered.
Sir Winston Churchill

You must never make a promise which you do not fulfill.
Sir Winston Churchill

In sport, in courage, and in the sight of Heaven, all men must meet on equal terms.
Sir Winston Churchill

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has
never been peace in the world.
Sir Winston Churchill

Have some whiskey and soda water. It is a good drink to draw a sword on.
Sir Winston Churchill

Worry is a spasm of the emotion.
Sir Winston Churchill

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't
believe that it can physically be done, and the other half is doing it.
Sir Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.
Sir Winston Churchill

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it.
Sir Winston Churchill

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