Quotes · Skopia

24 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

Place·Blenheim✕clear

Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill

1947

★ 9.4

Speech · Political speech

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill

1940

★ 7.1

Speech · Political speech

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill

1946

★ 7.0

Radio broadcast · Speech · Political speech

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

Winston Churchill

1939

★ 7.0

Historical literature

In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Winston Churchill

The Second World War

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

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

Winston Churchill

1940

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill

1942

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

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

Winston Churchill

1940

★ 6.9

Speech · Political speech

We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. 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.

Winston Churchill

1940

★ 6.9

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

Speech at Harrow School, October 29, 1941 · 1941

★ 5.3

Speech · Political speech

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Winston Churchill

Speech to the Canadian Parliament, December 30, 1941 · 1941

★ 5.3

Historical literature

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Winston Churchill

1898

★ 3.9

Speech · Political speech

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

1943

★ 3.8

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Winston Churchill

1937

★ 3.7

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Winston Churchill

1937

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

What is our policy?... To wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime.

Winston Churchill

1940

★ 3.7

Historical literature

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill

The Second World War · 1950

★ 3.7

Speech · Political speech

Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey; hardship our garment; constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.

Winston Churchill

1940

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

What is our aim?... Victory, 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

1940

★ 3.6

Radio broadcast

We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill

1941

★ 3.6

Historical literature

There are men in the world who derive as stern an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as others from success.

Winston Churchill

1898

★ 2.1

Speech · Political speech

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

Winston Churchill

1943

★ 2.1

Speech · Political speech

Do not let us speak of darker days. Let us speak rather of sterner days.

Winston Churchill

1941

★ 1.3

Autobiography and memoir

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Winston Churchill

1930

★ 1.1