Politics Quotes by Winston Churchill · Page 3

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics…

— Winston Churchill

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

— Winston Churchill

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but…

— 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

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

— Winston Churchill

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

— Winston Churchill

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

— 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

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

— 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

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

— 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

There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

— Winston Churchill

“There is a kind of intolerant spirit now abroad which arises out of the growing power of party and other machinery —…

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

— Winston Churchill

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

— 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

The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom…

— Winston Churchill