Politics Quotes by Winston Churchill

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

— Winston Churchill

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

— Winston Churchill

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

— Winston Churchill

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it…

— Winston Churchill

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

— Winston Churchill

[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.

— Winston Churchill

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

— Winston Churchill

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

— 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

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

— 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

There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been…

— Winston Churchill

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

— 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

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election.…

— Winston Churchill

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to…

— Winston Churchill

I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when…

— 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

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

— Winston Churchill

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people…

— Winston Churchill

“The Government simply cannot make up their mind or they cannot get the prime minister to make up his mind. So they…

— Winston Churchill

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

— Winston Churchill

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

— Winston Churchill

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

— Winston Churchill

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

— 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

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

— Winston Churchill

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

— Winston Churchill