Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

— Winston Churchill

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

— Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

— Winston Churchill

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

— Winston Churchill

Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

— Winston Churchill

Do not let us speak of darker days let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

— Winston Churchill

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

— Winston Churchill

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.

— Winston Churchill

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

— Winston Churchill

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

— Winston Churchill