1,721 Quotes by Winston Churchill
"A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly."
"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."
"If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January, 1927, praising Mussolini)"
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
"...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine."
"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."
"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party."