Winston Churchill Quotes About Politics
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Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
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After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
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They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.
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He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
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Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
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I like a man who grins when he fights.
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
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It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
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The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.
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If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
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In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.
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You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.
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There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
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I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
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Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.
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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
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The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.
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Winston Churchill
- Born: November 30, 1874
- Died: January 24, 1965
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
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