Winston Churchill

I have adhered to my rule of never criticising any measure of war or policy after the event unless I had before expressed publicly or formally my opinion or warning about it.

Winston Churchill

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

Winston Churchill

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Winston Churchill

I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

Winston Churchill

I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don’t like it.

Winston Churchill

I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

Winston Churchill

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said – namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Winston Churchill

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

Winston Churchill

I have not dared to presume to set down in writing many laws of my own, for I cannot tell what will meet with the approval of our successors.

Winston Churchill

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which leads to a dark gulf.

Winston Churchill