Government Quotes by Winston Churchill

Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home

— Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

— Winston Churchill

“the best argument against a democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

— Winston Churchill

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

— Winston Churchill

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

— Winston Churchill

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

— Winston Churchill

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

— Winston Churchill

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

— Winston Churchill

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom,…

— Winston Churchill

“Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

— Winston Churchill

The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them…

— Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I…

— Winston Churchill

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but…

— Winston Churchill

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some…

— Winston Churchill

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their…

— Winston Churchill

There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance…

— Winston Churchill

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the…

— Winston Churchill

The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the…

— Winston Churchill

No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions…

— Winston Churchill

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that…

— Winston Churchill

“nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited…

— Winston Churchill

When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task…

— Winston Churchill

The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom…

— Winston Churchill

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the…

— Winston Churchill

Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that…

— Winston Churchill

This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war…

— Winston Churchill

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

— Winston Churchill

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

— Winston Churchill

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

— Winston Churchill

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

— Winston Churchill

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

— Winston Churchill

The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid…

— Winston Churchill

Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are…

— Winston Churchill

So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid…

— Winston Churchill

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in…

— Winston Churchill

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I…

— Winston Churchill

I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies… Japan…

— Winston Churchill