Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.
Winston Churchill
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
Autobiographer
Biographer
Historian
Journalist
Military Officer
Painter
Politician
Screenwriter
Statesman
Statesperson
Boston
Massachusetts
Winston Spencer Churchill
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Lord)
Charles Maurin
David Winter
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
Colonel Warden
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Winston
Sir Churchill
Sir Leonard Spencer
Winston Leonard Spencer
Sir Churchill
Winston Churchill (Sir)
Sir W
Sea
Europe
Choose
Open
Must
Always
Britain
More quotes by Winston Churchill
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Winston Churchill
The maxim, Nothing prevails but perfection, may be spelled PARALYSIS.
Winston Churchill
There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.
Winston Churchill
Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
Winston Churchill
America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.
Winston Churchill
Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.
Winston Churchill
Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded!
Winston Churchill
The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.
Winston Churchill
We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.
Winston Churchill
The soul of freedom is deathless it cannot, and will not perish.
Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill
Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.
Winston Churchill
I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.
Winston Churchill
The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.
Winston Churchill
Even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill
The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.
Winston Churchill
Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.
Winston Churchill
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
Winston Churchill
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill
What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.
Winston Churchill