249 Quotes by Winston S. Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Cold steel and discipline and the slight capital surplus necessary to move and organise armies constituted the sole defences.

A nation that forgets its past has no future.

We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.

One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision. Life is a whole, and luck is a whole, and no part of them can be separated from the rest.

Around Whitehall, a sacking from Churchill was known as the ’awarding of the Order of the Boot.

The Bolsheviks do not represent Russia, they represent an international conception of human affairs entirely foreign and indeed hostile to anything we know of civilisation;.

Cromwell’s imperious words to the Long Parliament: “You have sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

He’s a humble man with much to be humble about.