Quotes by : Winston S. Churchill

I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them,....

If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted....

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder....

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking....

It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue....