I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Quote by Winston Churchill

Topics: Winston Churchill Quotes

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved...

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved...

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this...

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this...

My education was interrupted only by my schooling

My education was interrupted only by my schooling

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:...

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:...

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the...

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the...

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount...

MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount...

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world...

It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world...

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after...

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after...

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to...

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to...

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations...

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations...

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an...

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an...

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed,...

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed,...

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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

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

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only...

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only...

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to...

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to...