There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.
Winston ChurchillBefore the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end.
Winston ChurchillThe American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.
Winston ChurchillSocialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."
Winston ChurchillToo often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston ChurchillThose who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.
Winston ChurchillWe have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.
Winston ChurchillWe must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges
Winston ChurchillBetter to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.
Winston ChurchillTime is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits
Winston ChurchillThere is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.
Winston ChurchillAny clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.
Winston ChurchillI am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.
Winston ChurchillWe are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]
Winston ChurchillJudged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.
Winston ChurchillAn American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him.
Winston ChurchillI was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.
Winston ChurchillSome 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.
Winston ChurchillDanger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward
Winston ChurchillHere was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.
Winston ChurchillVast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.
Winston ChurchillI get my exercise being a pallbearer for those of my friends who believed in regular running and calisthenics.
Winston ChurchillThe Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.
Winston ChurchillIn battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.
Winston ChurchillI would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.
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