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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

British - Statesman

1

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill War, Politics, Poison
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2

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Winston Churchill Good, Waiting, Politics
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3

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Winston Churchill Day, Church
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4

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

Winston Churchill Future, Fear, Dark
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5

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Winston Churchill World, Old, New
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6

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Winston Churchill Education, Fighting
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7

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Winston Churchill Blood, Years, Forget
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8

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Winston Churchill War, Wise, Winning
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9

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill Great, Land, Always
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10

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Winston Churchill Advice, Now, Days
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11

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Winston Churchill Patriotism, Fight, Moment
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12

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Winston Churchill Great, Greatest, Dark
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13

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

Winston Churchill Better, Place, Always
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14

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill Victory, Problems, Defeat
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15

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Winston Churchill History, Myself, Past
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16

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Winston Churchill War, Myself, Writing
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17

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

Winston Churchill Life, Work, War
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18

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Winston Churchill Path, Improvement, I Am
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19

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Winston Churchill Business, Politics, Game
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20

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Winston Churchill Great, Enemy, Possible
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21

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Winston Churchill People, Drunk, Up
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22

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill Man, Good, Great
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23

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

Winston Churchill Devil, Hell, House
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24

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill Fear, Meaning, Sometimes
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