Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“the best argument against a democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies… Japan… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image