FastSaying

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.


Winston Churchill

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is th...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
WINSTON CHURCHILL It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been re...
EZRA STILES Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.
STUART CHASE Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its fa...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its fa...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN All what we hope for is that a day will come, when we have all gone, when people will say that this ...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect governme...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have bee...
THOMAS SOWELL I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is ...
JEANE KIRKPATRICK I have tried to live as a professional to ensure that all those individuals that touch the children,...
BRENDA JONES Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its fa...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its fa...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I'm very competitive, and I've never been a part of a team that has lost this many games, and that g...
KATIE WINKELMAN Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the worl...
STEVE KING Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was...
A.E. SAMAAN The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all ...
LEO TOLSTOY It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Wit...
JOSEPH SCHUMPETER It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Wit...
JOSEPH A. SCHUMPETER All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What real...
PAT NIXON Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy ...
TERRY PRATCHETT But we're no longer rain, I said, we're no longer seeds. We're men. Now we can stand and decide. Thi...
DAVE EGGERS We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ Obviously, Kenyatta has had and will continue to have some irritation in that knee. We'll have to be...
BILL MUIR Judicial review has been a part of our democracy in this constitutional government for over 200 year...
RON KIND In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of t...
ABDUL AZIZ AL GHURAIR In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem ...
GERALD R. FORD Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
G. K. CHESTERTON Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarch...
JOHN ADAMS Many indicators have been winnowed down over the years to those that contribute the most. These are ...
JOHN CROSBY Change the coaches? We tried that one. Change the players? We tried that one. Maybe we need to stop ...
NNAMDI ASOMUGHA It has been the case for some time that I have made myself dizzy thinking about the fact that the im...
SUKARNO Pretty stupid,” I called after his retreating form. “To give up before all possible solutions ha...
MARIA V. SNYDER In spite of the fact that these studies have been repeated and that the designs have been modified i...
RON TURNER Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has ...
BILL MOYERS It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government...
ALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many diffe...
VICENTE FOX If this was a proper functioning democracy this government would have been kicked out long ago,
JONATHAN MOYO Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world...
PETE SEEGER What we've tried to emphasize with this family is that we don't want to have this tried again. We wa...
EMILY BLOMME The Society of Professional Journalists believes that "public enlightenment is the forerunner of jus...
LARRY J. SCHWEIGER Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bod...
EDGAR D. MITCHELL Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expe...
MARK TWAIN Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expe...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. We set out to write 13 songs. But as has been the case every time we've tried to do that, we ended u...
ANTHONY KIEDIS Media Watch has been told that both programs actually have a list of tried and true stories that are...
LIZ JACKSON Every U.S. citizen should have the assurance that the U.S. government will come vigorously to their ...
TRENT FRANKS They have tried at all times to create doubts about the democratic legitimacy of a president who has...
BERNARDO ALVAREZ You go on trying and trying, and you make many decisions and you take many vows,but nothing happens ...
OSHO My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do...
CHARLES DICKENS The evidence for Christian truth is not exhaustive, but it is sufficient. Too often, Christianity ha...
JOHN BAILLIE What Brahman is cannot be described. All things in the world — the Vedas, the Puranas, the Tantras...
RAMAKRISHNA The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
VOLTAIRE When all possibilities have been tried and no answer found then that which is the impossible must be...
ANDREA L KNOPE Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has ...
BILL MOYERS The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their em...
WOODROW WILSON The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their em...
WOODROW T. WILSON Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trus...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be tru...
THOMAS JEFFERSON I've been ready all year. I've tried to reiterate that to everyone,
JASON MAAS Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. ...
MICHELE BACHMANN I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its ...
WALT WHITMAN I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its ...
WALT WHITMAN Democracy has always been in crisis: democracy is all about practicing the art of bearable dissatisf...
IVAN KRASTEV Feast of Patrick, Bishop of Armagh, Missionary, Patron of Ireland, c.460 The evidence for Christ...
OS GUINNESS The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been trie...
RUSH LIMBAUGH I think the ghosts of the past, the ghosts of colonial rule, the ghosts of the failure of his govern...
BRIAN NKAROGO I've tried in my career to do most everything, because it all intrigues me. And I've found the first...
RUPERT HOLMES No one has ever been able to discover how they make this subtle sound, and what is more, no one ever...
PAUL GALLICO As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of thei...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR The publicity would have been high on the first person tried. The second tried would then be at a su...
JOE FRIEDBERG It's a plea for prompt disposition, which has been our cry all along. We want to get this case tried...
DICK DEGUERIN What I am afraid of is... Gandhi. He has brains and always tried to put me in the wrong. I have to b...
MUHAMMAD ALI JINNAH I love democracy because I love and have observed first-hand how much the people of this democracy h...
JOEY TALLADINO But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Coach has been talking about heart all week. We've been doing a lot of rebounding drills. We haven't...
BRAD GOODMAN Our preference would have been that a government mandate of this nature be proposed and debated in t...
MARK STINNEFORD We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Musl...
ABU BAKAR BASHIR My only sin in this world has been that I have been truthful and honest and God has blessed me for t...
AMIT ABRAHAM Have you tried talking to her?"
"No. We've been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You...
CASSANDRA CLARE Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, a...
H. L. MENCKEN I noticed that democracy was broken and tried to work on fixing that in Japan. Then I realized that ...
JOICHI ITO It is acknowledged, namely, that there are in the world three forms of government, autocracy, oligar...
AESCHINES News, by and large, has been the purest of all the television mediums, or at least we've tried t...
LESLIE MOONVES We are born and reborn countless number of times, and it is possible that each being has been our pa...
DALAI LAMA The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But let's remember that, des...
ALEX TABARROK No one is perfect except two people : those who are dead and those who have not been born yet.
VIKRANT PARSAI A lot of this stuff has been tried before, and didn't make it. But who knows? Maybe he will make it.
BOB WELSH I have tried to help Harriet with some of her business affairs. All of my dealings with her have bee...
JAKE MOORE The government has an arsenal of pressure points. Individually, he might have tried each of these ca...
JOEL ANDROPHY

More Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand befo...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
WINSTON CHURCHILL When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
WINSTON CHURCHILL No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the pat...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I s...
WINSTON CHURCHILL For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to histor...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
WINSTON CHURCHILL To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
WINSTON CHURCHILL When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun...
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...
WINSTON CHURCHILL What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cea...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
WINSTON CHURCHILL War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
WINSTON CHURCHILL History is written by the victors.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket...
WINSTON CHURCHILL If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
WINSTON CHURCHILL War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
WINSTON CHURCHILL 'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
WINSTON CHURCHILL No crime is so great as daring to excel.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I never worry about action, but only inaction.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
WINSTON CHURCHILL One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do...
WINSTON CHURCHILL This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
WINSTON CHURCHILL My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alco...
WINSTON CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarante...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am easily satisfied with the very best.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Never, never, never give up.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is in the details.
WINSTON CHURCHILL For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like dri...
WINSTON CHURCHILL MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of though...
WINSTON CHURCHILL My education was interrupted only by my schooling
WINSTON CHURCHILL The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I wanted to make a clever chemistry joke, but the best ones argon.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He who laughs last didn't get it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is anot...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or pett...
WINSTON CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smi...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large ma...
WINSTON CHURCHILL It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another ma...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says somethi...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful
WINSTON CHURCHILL Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning
WINSTON CHURCHILL They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up th...
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungr...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
WINSTON CHURCHILL If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, b...
WINSTON CHURCHILL For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else
WINSTON CHURCHILL The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every dif...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
WINSTON CHURCHILL When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistr...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up.
WINSTON CHURCHILL 'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground
WINSTON CHURCHILL Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A joke is a very serious thing
WINSTON CHURCHILL The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
WINSTON CHURCHILL When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own coun...
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Never, never, never, never give up.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Win...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the hum...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible t...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent v...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
WINSTON CHURCHILL My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow th...
WINSTON CHURCHILL We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every diff...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every diffi...
WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
WINSTON CHURCHILL True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting informat...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is a...
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...
WINSTON CHURCHILL You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
WINSTON CHURCHILL If you're going through hell, keep going.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
WINSTON CHURCHILL History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo...
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is neces...
WINSTON CHURCHILL You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The price of greatness is responsibility.
WINSTON CHURCHILL All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The first quality that is needed is audacity.
WINSTON CHURCHILL If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels rou...
WINSTON CHURCHILL In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
WINSTON CHURCHILL If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
WINSTON CHURCHILL For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and ar...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
WINSTON CHURCHILL From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Cont...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the even...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life
WINSTON CHURCHILL Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
WINSTON CHURCHILL