Winston Churchill Quotations

Listed below are twenty Winston Churchill quotations that I found amusing and insightful. After you get over the initial abruptness of these quotations, you will begin to see a deep underlying meaning.

• Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: "We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls."
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• There are a lot of lies going around... and half of them are true.
  
  
• If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
  
  
• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
  
  
• The price of greatness is responsibility.
  
  
• In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
  
  
• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
  
  
• I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
  
  
• Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
  
  
• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
  
  
• There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
  
  
• This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
  
  
• When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.
  
  
• The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
  
  
• We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
  
  
• 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.