Quotes from Winston Churchill...
(taken from another thread)
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
"Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home."
"Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil."
"Golf is a game whose sole aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill designed for that purpose."
"If it is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised."
"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."
"Some people's idea of free speech is that they are free to say anything they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage."
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
"If you destroy a free market you create a black market."
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
"It is a socialist ideal that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses."
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
"This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never‹in nothing, great or small, large or petty‹never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
"Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning."
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'" |
