More Quotes by Winston Churchill
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
if you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
