I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

— Winston S. Churchill

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

— Winston S. Churchill

I 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.

— Winston S. Churchill

I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

— Winston S. Churchill

If he trips he must be sustained. If he makes mistakes they must be covered. If he sleeps he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is not good he must be pole-axed

— Winston S. Churchill

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been wholeheartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."(Speech in Rome on 20 January 1927, praising Mussolini)

— Winston S. Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

— Winston S. Churchill

If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.

— Winston S. Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

— Winston S. Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going

— Winston S. Churchill