For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed. — 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
I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, freebooters; all Indian leaders will be of low calibre & men of straw.… — 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
Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition… — 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
You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police -… — Winston Churchill Copy Share
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. — 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