Winston Churchill Quotes

I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

I have never liked Winston Churchill, but in view of what you tell me as to his admirable conduct and nerve in mobilizing the fleet, I do wish that if it comes your way you would extend to him my congratulations.

No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.

I've got more in common with a three-toed sloth than I have with Winston Churchill. There is no easy comparison with any modern politician. The more you read about him, the more completely amazed you are about what he did - his energy, his literary fecundity, his ability to work - just unbelievable energy.

I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested on one person's shoulders. Extraordinary people carried that country through its darkest hours; truly inspirational. I suppose that's my theme. Whether it's a biography or a movie; whether it's fictional or true, I'm inspired by people doing great things.

Churchill, he is a great man. He is, of course, our enemy and has always been the enemy of Communism, but he is an enemy one must respect, an enemy one likes to have.

The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler.

I frowned just like Winston Churchill on his worst day, and I reminded my father of a judge who had presided over a case... I've been Judge ever since I was two weeks old.

Churchill has spent the best years of his life preparing impromptu remarks.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Winston Churchill famously said that meeting jaw-to-jaw is better than war. With Trump, the strategy seems to be jobs jobs jobs - at home and abroad.

News of Churchill. He is said to be in a very depressed state, spending the entire day smoking and drinking. This is the kind of enemy we need.

In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

We flew over to England by the same route Churchill took. It was easy. All we had to do was follow the cigar ashes.

An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

And what always struck me about that war period was how even Churchill had to talk socialism to keep up people's morale.

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

Not Churchill. Sixty-five, old for a Churchill.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, capitalism is the worst economic system except for all the other forms.

Just five years before that the Russians were our allies.

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.