Winston Churchill

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs—Victory in spite of all terror—Victory, however long and hard the road may be.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I never worry about action, but only about inaction.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

There is no such thing as a good tax.

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.