Winston Churchill1874–1965The quotations of
Winston Churchill
British statesman, soldier and writer
1874–1965
90 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Politics and Clever Jabs.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930), Chapter 9 (Education At Bangalore).- In the House of Commons (18 April 1947), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (1996), Jay, Oxford University Press, p. 93.
He is a very modest man with a great deal to be modest about.
Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Broadcast (21 March 1943), quoted in The Times (22 March 1943), p. 6Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
1930-1935 Wilderness Years‘In war-time,’ I said, ‘truth is so precious she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.’
Discussion of Operation Overlord with Stalin at the Teheran Conference (November 30, 1943); in The Second World War, Volume V: Closing the Ring (1952), Chapter 21 (Teheran: The Crux), p. 338This Treasury paper, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
As cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 50, ISBN 1586486389If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
I think ‘no comment’ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
After using the phrase when interviewed by reporters in Miami on 12 February, 1946; quoted in Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” Speech Fifty Years Later by James W. Muller, University of Missouri Press (1999), p. 20
