churchill Quotes

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

“In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.”

“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”