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

The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind. 
- Winston Churchill

A young man who is not a liberal has no heart, 
but an old man who is not a conservative has no mind.

- Winston Churchill

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. 
- Sir Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack. 
- Winston Churchill

The further backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. 
- Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. 
- Winston Churchill

Never, never, never, never give up. 
- Winston Churchill

Out of intense complexities, simplicities emerge. 
- Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
-Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. 

- Winston Churchill

Socialism can only work in two places: in heaven, where they don't need it and in hell where they already have it. 

- Winston Churchill

Owing to the neglect of our defences and the mishandling of the German problem in the last five years, we seem to be very near the bleak choice between War and Shame. My feeling is that we shall choose Shame, and then have War thrown in a little later, on even more adverse terms than at present.
- Winston Churchill in a letter to Lord Moyne, 1938

We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.

- Winston Churchill

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. 

- Winston Churchill (1903)

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

- Winston Churchill

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has much to be modest about. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

There is no such thing as a good tax. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. 
- Sir Winston Churchill

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

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

The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, "God save the Queen"; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

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

I am easily satisfied with the very best. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. 
- Sir Winston Churchill 

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill

An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.

- Sir Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill 

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill 

Those who appease the crocodile are merely those who will be the last eaten by the crocodiles.
- Winston Churchill