Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

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

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.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

Never, never, never give up.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

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

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History is written by the victors.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.