Quotes

“Great and good are seldom the same man.” Winston Churchill

“"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.” Winston Churchill

“There is no such thing as a good tax.” Winston Churchill

“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.” Winston Churchill

“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” Winston Churchill

“My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.” Winston Churchill

“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.” Winston Churchill

“I am easily satisfied with the very best.” Winston Churchill

“Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.” Winston Churchill

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.” Winston Churchill

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill

“A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.” Winston Churchill

“Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.” Winston Churchill

“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.” Winston Churchill

“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.” Winston Churchill

“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.” Winston Churchill

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” Winston Churchill

“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.” Winston Churchill

“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.” Winston Churchill

“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.” Winston Churchill

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” Winston Churchill

“I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.” Winston Churchill

“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.” Winston Churchill

“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” Winston Churchill

“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.” Winston Churchill

“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.” Winston Churchill

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” Winston Churchill

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” Winston Churchill

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” Winston Churchill

“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.” Winston Churchill