Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
(Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9)

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
(Second World War ,1948)

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
(Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943)

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
(speech at the Lord Mayor's banquet, London, November 9, 1954)

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
(Speech in March 1946)

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
(Speech in November 1942)

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
(speech in the House of Commons, July 14, 1940)

A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward.
(speech in the House of Commons, November 29, 1944)

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. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
(Speech, 1941, Harrow School)