Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home — 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
Praise the humanities, my boy. That'll make them think you're broadminded! — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
India is an abstraction… India is no more a political personality than Europe. India is a geographical term. It is no more… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine… — 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 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
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
We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the… — 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… — 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
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe. — 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
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil. — 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
Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war too. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Let us make sure that the supreme fact of the 20th century is that they tread the same path.” — 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
If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.” — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow. — 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
A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery —… — 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
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have… — 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