Winston Churchill Quotes

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

If it weren’t for painting, I wouldn’t live; I couldn’t bear the extra strain of things.

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.