Winston Churchill Quotes
Quotebunny has 152 quotations by Winston Churchill.
“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”
“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
“The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.”
“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.”
“The first quality that is needed is audacity.”
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
“The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.”
“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.”
“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”
“The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.”
“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”
Winston Churchill Bio:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, FRS (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, an historian, writer and artist. To date, he is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the second person to be recognised as an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
During his army career, Churchill saw military action in India, the Sudan and the Second Boer War. He gained fame and notoriety as a war correspondent and through contemporary books he wrote describing the campaigns. He also served briefly in the British Army on the Western Front in World War I, commanding the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
At the forefront of the political scene for almost fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government. During the war he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He returned as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air. In the interwar years, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative government.
After the outbreak of the Second World War, Churchill was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and led Britain to victory against the Axis powers. Churchill was always noted for his speeches, which became a great inspiration to the British people and to the embattled Allied forces.
After losing the 1945 election, he became Leader of the Opposition. In 1951 he again became Prime Minister, before finally retiring in 1955. Upon his death, the Queen granted him the honour of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of statesmen in the world.
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