Churchill Quotes

“The first time you meet Winston you see all his faults,’ she told him, ‘and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“When you make some great mistake,’ he philosophized, ‘it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward,”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Nations which went down fighting rose again, but those which tamely surrendered were finished.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Churchill loathed Communism because of the attack it made ‘on the human spirit and human rights’, he said in July 1920. ‘My hatred of Bolshevism and Bolsheviks is not founded on their silly system of economics, or their absurd doctrine of an impossible equality. It arises from the bloody and devastating terrorism which they practise in every land into which they have broken, and by which alone their criminal regime can be maintained.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Yet in all the anxiety of these days Churchill never lost his sense of humour. When an MP asked him on 8 June to ensure that the same mistakes over reparations were not made after victory that had been made after the Great War, the Prime Minister assured him that ‘That is most fully in our minds. I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated. We shall probably make another set of mistakes.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“When Churchill was twenty, the British Empire covered more than one-fifth of the earth’s land surface,”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy. Churchill, Perth,”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Now, this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“The temptation to tell a chief in a great position the things he most likes to hear is one of the commonest explanations of mistaken policy,’ he had written.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“This is a time to try men of force and vision and not to be exclusively confined to those who are judged safe by conventional standards.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Only one thing in history is certain: that Mankind is unteachable.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“This was a time when it was equally good to live or die. Churchill, Their Finest Hour”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“we may show mercy – we shall ask for none.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because . . . it is the quality which guarantees the others.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Never confuse leadership with popularity.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“In April, Churchill decided he should try to alter his speaking style, to make it less sonorous and Victorian, to avoid sounding pompous to younger listeners. At sixty, he was an old dog to be learning new oratorical tricks,”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings,’ he said in a debate in October. ‘The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“What is money made for except to spend?”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“The temptation to tell a chief in a great position the things he most likes to hear is one of the commonest explanations of mistaken policy,”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Never confuse leadership with popularity.’158”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“The greatest tie of all is language . . . Words are the only things that last forever. The most tremendous monuments or prodigies of engineering crumble under the hand of time. The Pyramids moulder, the bridges rust, the canals fill up, grass covers the railway track; but words spoken two or three thousand years ago remain with us now, not as mere relics of the past, but with all their pristine vital force.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. Churchill”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“If an English writer cannot say what he has to say in English, and in simple English, depend upon it, it is probably not worth saying”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny

“Continuing high unemployment, the legacy of the General Strike and the Trade Disputes Act, and a long period in power had weakened the Baldwin Government, for which Churchill had some responsibility. Yet once more he was fortunate in his defeat: he would not have wanted to be chancellor of the Exchequer during the Wall Street Crash later that year.”
― Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny