Winston Churchill Quotes Page 2

“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.@”

“I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.”

“I don’t waste my essence in bed.”

“I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”

“If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”

“If you cannot read all your books... fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”

“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”

“In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”

“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”

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

“My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”

“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”

“Now that we have run out of money we have to think.”

“Of course I'm an egoist. Where do you get if you aren't?”

“One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.”

“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”

“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”

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

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.”