Winston Churchill Quotes

Make your point as clear as possible and thrust the steel well home.

I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

Words should be employed as the means, not the end; language is the instrument, conviction is the work.

In all sincere speech there is power, not necessarily great power, but as much as the speaker is capable of.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

You have to work very hard behind the scenes, to make a message clear enough for a lot of people to understand.

If I have something to say, I want it to be meaningful.

A word after a word after a word is power.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.

As writers we must, from our very opening sentence, speak with authority to our readers.

My basic rule is to speak slowly and simply so that my audience has an opportunity to follow and think about what I am saying.

What you say in defense of … ideas matters, and what people hear matters even more.

There has been no word equal to it in convincing power. I have spoken, but my word is feeble in comparison.

If you want what you're saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody's life. Your own, first.

There are various ways of delivering some kind of truth, so I try to find the style or the way that I find more effective.

I want people to hear what I have to say, and I want to be able to get a lot of points across.

I often will state things strongly if I think that it's important.

I tell folks when I walk into a room, when I leave, you may not like me - you may not agree with me - but by golly, you will not misunderstand where I am. I get things done.