Winston Churchill Government Quotations

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.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties.

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

I 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.

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

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi government exudes through every neutral state inside information about the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their propaganda machinery. If words could kill, we shall be dead already.

When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order.

Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be.

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.

It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

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

Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.

Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

I do not believe there is the slightest chance of war with Japan in our lifetime. The Japanese are our allies.... Japan is at the other end of the world. She cannot menace our vital security in any way.... War with Japan is not a possibility which any reasonable government need take into account.