Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was a British statesman and Conservative politician. Churchill was Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and from 1951 to 1955. He is known as one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century.
Churchill was a Nobel Prize winner (for literature) and the first Honorary Citizen of the U.S.
During his first mandate (from 1940 to 1945), Churchill had an extremely important role in victory over Nazism. In 1945, the Conservative Party lost the elections, and Churchill became the Opposition leader. He had another mandate from 1951 to 1955, after which he retired. Churchill is considered one of the most important persons in European history.
Winston Churchill Quotes
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.— Winston Churchill
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.— Winston Churchill
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.— Winston Churchill
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.— Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.— Winston Churchill
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.— Winston Churchill
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.— Winston Churchill
Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.— Winston Churchill
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.— Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.— Winston Churchill
War 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 Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality that guarantees all others.— Winston Churchill
There are those non-God religions, Nazism and Communism. We are urged from the Continent and from different quarters that we must choose which side we are on. I repudiate both, and will have nothing to do with either. As a matter of fact, they are like two peas. Tweedledum and Tweedledee were violently contrasted compared with them.— Winston Churchill, Speech in Leeds, 25 January 1937
Never give in–never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.— Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.— Winston Churchill
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy.— Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as a good tax.— Winston Churchill