Winston Churchill Quotes Page 3

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”

“Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

“The further backward you look, the further forward you can see.”

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”

“The most important thing about education is appetite.”

“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

“The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.”

“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”

“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.”

“There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them.”

“This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.”

“Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.”

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

“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”

“To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.”

“We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”

“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?”

“When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.”

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.”

“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”

“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”

“Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.”

“Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.”

“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.”

“You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.”