Quotes by Winston Churchill

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

“The freer a society is, the more it leaves the family alone.”

“(When told that he is a drunk) My dear, you are ugly; but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

“As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”

“[The Edwardian era] was a time of booming trade, of great prosperity and wealth in which the pageant of London Society took place year after year in a setting of traditional dignity and beauty. The...”

“I submit respectfully to the House as a general principle that our responsibility in this matter is directly proportionate to our power. Where there is great power there is great responsibility, wh...”

“We welcome into our homes the machines that vacuum the thoughts out of our heads and pump in someone else's. John Berger in Ways of Seeing said that television advertisers succeeded by persuading v...”

“The future though imminent is obscure.”

“A nation that forgets its past has no future”

“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparentl...”

“the balance of power between the sexes had been destabilized, and relations between mothers and their children transformed from a natural and accepted one to a mere option.”

“Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.”

“Patience is sorrow's salve.”

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

“This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small,large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to forc...”

“The price of greatness is responsibilty.”

“When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits - not animals.”

“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”