Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
– Sir Winston Churchill
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
– Sir Winston Churchill
For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
– Sir Winston Churchill
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
– Sir Winston Churchill
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.
– Sir Winston Churchill
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
– Sir Winston Churchill
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
– Sir Winston Churchill
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
– Sir Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors.
– Sir Winston Churchill
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
– Sir Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the same man.
– Sir Winston Churchill