Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

— Winston S. Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a fatal distemper may dev

— Winston S. Churchill

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

— Winston S. Churchill

Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

— Winston S. Churchill

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

— Winston S. Churchill

Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

— Winston S. Churchill

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

— Winston S. Churchill

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

— Winston S. Churchill

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down.

— Winston S. Churchill

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.

— Winston S. Churchill