1,721 Quotes by Winston Churchill

"Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged."

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

"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may develop."[New Statesman interview, 7 January 1939]"

"Attlee is a modest man who has a great deal to be modest about."

"Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all."

"-Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè.-Madam, se lei fosse mia moglie, io lo berrei."Dialogo tra Lady Astor e Winston Churchill"

"Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves."

"We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest."

"Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished."

"Non complicate le cose, ci saranno già le cose a complicarsi da sole."