Winston Churchill

What kind of people do they [the Japanese] think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Winston Churchill

Whatever else they may say of me as a soldier, at least nobody can say I have ever failed to display a meet and proper appreciation of the virtues of alcohol.

Winston Churchill

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

Winston Churchill

When a new book appears one should read an old one.

Winston Churchill

When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men’s souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

Winston Churchill

When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my first million years in painting, and so to get to the bottom of the subject.

Winston Churchill

When men are fighting for their lives they are not often disposed to be complimentary to those who are trying to kill them.

Winston Churchill

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Winston Churchill

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

Winston Churchill

With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

Winston Churchill