Winston Churchill

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened.

We must have a better word than "prefabricated" why not "ready-made"?

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say: "This was their finest hour."

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.

We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air we shall defend our island whatever the cost may be we shall fight on the beaches we shall fight on the landing grounds we shall fight in the fields and in the streets we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.

No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.

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

Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be for without victory there is no survival.

It is no use saying "we are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.

It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!