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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech at Harvard University, Sept. 6, 1943
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, Nov. 11, 1947
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, While England Slept
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, May 13, 1940
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, October 10, 1908
I think a curse should rest on me — because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment — and yet — I can't help it — I enjoy every second of it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, letter to a friend, 1916
In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, Aug. 20, 1940
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, Nov. 29, 1944
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech to Royal Academy of Art, 1953
For myself I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL, speech, Nov. 9, 1954
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.
A cat looks down upon a man, and a dog looks up to a man, but a pig will look a man in the eye and see his equal.
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