Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender. — 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
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future. — 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 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
If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law. — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're… — 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
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
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
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
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
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
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
To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill Copy Share
There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action. — Winston Churchill Copy Share