Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
~ Winston Churchill - [Service]

When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
~ Winston Churchill - [Silence]

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
~ Winston Churchill - [Simplicity]

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
~ Winston Churchill - [Simplicity]

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
~ Winston Churchill - [Slavery]

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
~ Winston Churchill - [Solitude]

Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
~ Winston Churchill - [Speakers and Speaking]

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.
~ Winston Churchill - [Speakers and Speaking]

Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
~ Winston Churchill - [Speakers and Speaking]

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
~ Winston Churchill - [Success]

If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
~ Winston Churchill - [Time and Time Management]

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
~ Winston Churchill - [Truth]

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
~ Winston Churchill - [Truth]

Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
~ Winston Churchill - [Vengeance]

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
~ Winston Churchill - [Victory]

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
~ Winston Churchill - [Virtue]

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
~ Winston Churchill - [Vision]

Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all.
~ Winston Churchill - [Vocabulary]

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
~ Winston Churchill - [War]

Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
~ Winston Churchill - [Perseverance]