Winston Churchill Politics Quotations

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

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

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

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

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Politics is 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.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

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

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

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

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.

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