Winston Churchill Giving Quotations

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

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

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

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

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance.

Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument.

Wars are not won by evacuations.

Never, never, never give up.

You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: 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.

It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne

Never, ever ever ever ever give up.

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.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.

Never give up. Never give up. Never give up.

The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope.

Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.

Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!

Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.

The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

If we could get out of this jam by giving up Malta and Gibraltar and some African colonies I would jump at it. But the only safe way is to convince Hitler that he cannot beat us.