The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.
Winston ChurchillYou must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success.
Winston ChurchillCertainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.
Winston ChurchillWe are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends.
Winston ChurchillOf all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!
Winston ChurchillI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston ChurchillThe late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.
Winston ChurchillEveryone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.
Winston ChurchillIf I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.
Winston ChurchillNow at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.
Winston ChurchillWhen I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path . . . and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland.
Winston ChurchillOut of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.
Winston ChurchillSuccess in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillBroadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.
Winston ChurchillThe enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.
Winston ChurchillBy being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.
Winston ChurchillWar is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston ChurchillIf tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, "We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best."
Winston ChurchillI will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
Winston ChurchillThere is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win.
Winston ChurchillIf Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.
Winston ChurchillNo lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
Winston ChurchillHeadmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.
Winston ChurchillDecided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Winston ChurchillWhich brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.
Winston ChurchillThe pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.
Winston ChurchillI cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.
Winston ChurchillWe are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth.
Winston ChurchillI 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.
Winston ChurchillIt may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
Winston ChurchillThis movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing... It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century.
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