Quotes by Winston Churchill

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

"History is written by the victors."

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."

"All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

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

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

"Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."