Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in May 1940 at a critical time during World War II. When meeting with his cabinet on his first day, he told them "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat" to emphasize the immense challenges ahead and hardships they would face to defeat Nazi Germany. Churchill was a renowned orator and leader who rallied the British people with his resolve to continue fighting no matter the costs or difficulties to achieve ultimate victory in the war.

1. A
Winston Churchill
quotes is often
welcome.
Some change their principles for the sake
of their party;
Winston Churchill changed party for the
sake of his principles.
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2. • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and
sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most
grievous kind
• You ask, What is our policy? I will say; “It is to wage
war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with
all the strength that God can give us: to wage war
against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the
dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is
our policy.
• You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one
word: Victory—victory at all costs, victory in spite of
all terror, victory however long and hard the road
may be; for without victory there is no survival.
• The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of
soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming
to its close.
In its place we are entering a period of consequences.
On May 10, 1940, Winston
Churchill became Prime
Minister. When he met his
Cabinet on May 13, he told
them that “I have nothing to
offer but blood, toil, tears and
sweat.” He repeated that
phrase later in the day when
he asked the House of
Commons for a vote of
confidence in his new all-party
government.

3. • The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they
are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
• Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been
tried from time to time.
• The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
• A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next
month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
• The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
• Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn’t know where he was going,
he didn’t know where he was and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

4. • Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war
• Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times
• Politicians complaining about the press are like sailors complaining about the sea.
• We must take change by the hand or rest assuredly, change will take us by the throat.
• You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
• The Americans will always do the right thing… after they've exhausted all the alternatives.
• It's only at night that the stars shine.

5. Now this is not the end.
It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
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.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

6. However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
It's not enough that we do our best;
sometimes we have to do what's required.
Success is not final, failure si not fatal;
it is the courage to continue that counts.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.
Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

7. Lady Astor: Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!
Winston Churchill: Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly.
But tomorrow, I shall be sober.
A modest man, who has much to be modest about.
(about the Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee)
Lady Astor :
Sir, if you were my husband,
I would poison your drink.
Winston Churchill :
Madam, if you were my wife,
I would drink it.

8. King George VI: I believe we are to meet regularly.
Winston Churchill: Once a week, I'm afraid.
KG VI: How is... How are you for Mondays?
WC : Um, I shall endeavor to be available on Mondays.
KG VI: 4:00?
WC : I nap at 4:00.
KG VI: Is that permissible?
WC : No. But necessary. I work late.
One of Churchill’s
constituents asked
Churchill:
“Don't you think it high
time
that the British lion showed
its teeth?
Churchill growled:
“It must go to
the dentist first.
Photographer: “I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture
on your hundredth birthday.”
Churchill: “I don’t see why not, young man. You look
reasonably fit and healthy.”

9. A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are
right sometimes.
He has all the virtues I dislike
and none of the vices I admire.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world,
and the worst of it is half of them are true.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
Some people's idea of
free spech is that they
are free to say what
they like
but if anyone says
anything back,
that is an outrage.

10. Statistics are like a drunk with a
lamppost: used more for support
than illumination.
The only statistics you can trust are
those you falsified yourself.

11. • Personally I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
• History will be kind to me for I intend to write.
• I'm getting the job only because the ship is sinking. It's not a
gift, it's revenge.
• My most brillant achievement was my ability to be able to
persuade my wife to marry me.
• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is
prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another
matter.
• My father was like God. Busy elsewhere.
Préparez-vous, je vais parler en français:
une entreprise terrifiante, et qui sera
une dure épreuve pour votre amitié
envers la Grande-Bretagne.

13. I'm just preparing
my impromptu
remarks.

14. .
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to
be right.

15. When the eagles are silent,
the parrots begin to jabber.
Never
use a pound word
when a penny one will do.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and
the old words best of all.
"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of
those we let slip out

16. An appeaser is one who feeds a
crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
All I can say is that
I have taken more out of alcohol
than alcohol has taken out of me.

17. If you're not a liberal at
twenty you have not
heart,
If you're not a
conservative at forty
you have no brain.

18. It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link of the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
A man does what he must-in spite of
personal consequences, in spite of
obstacles and dangers and
pressures-and that is the basis of all
human morality.

19. I like pigs.
Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.

20. I'd rather argue
against a hundred
idiots,
than have one
agree with me..