22 Quotes filtered by Winston Churchill
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses.
Winston Churchill
Category: Profit
Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.
Winston Churchill
Category: Free Speech
We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think as much of being a European as of belonging to their native land, and that without losing any of their love and loyalty of their birthplace.
Winston Churchill 09/05/1948
Category: European Federalism, European Integration
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
Category: Conviction
I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis it parts for the time with reality.
Winston Churchill 23/01/1944
Category: Criticism
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
Category: History
A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.
Winston Churchill
Category: What is a Political Party?, Politicians (as a species)
The Admiralty has demanded six, the Treasury said we could only have four so we compromised on eight.
Winston Churchill
On defence procurement during WW1
Category: Defence, Treasury, HM, World War I
Political skill is the ability to foretell what is going to happen...and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it did not happen.
Winston Churchill
Category: Politics is...
It is better to be making the news than taking it.
Winston Churchill
A good put down to journalists
Category: Making Headlines
He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought.
Winston Churchill
On Ramsay MacDonald.
Category: Insulting Labour
Joe was the one who made the weather.
Winston Churchill
On Joseph Chamberlain.
Category: Conservative Politicians (quotes about)
Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.
Winston Churchill 11/08/1947
Category: Property
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill 05/03/1946
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Cold War
Dead birds don't fall out of nests.
Winston Churchill
On being told his flies were undone while relaxing in the Smoking Room of the House of Commons
Category: Repartee
Nancy Astor: Winston, if I were married to you I'd put poison in your coffee.
Winston Churchill: Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.
Winston Churchill 1912
Category: 100 Best Quotes Ever, Repartee
I have waited fifty years to see the Bonless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
Winston Churchill 28/01/1931
On Ramsay Macdonald during a Trade Union Bill debate, referring to the exhibit in Barnum's Circus
Category: Insulting Labour
He is a modest little man with much to be modest about.
Winston Churchill
On Clement Attlee
Category: Insulting Labour
If you recognise anyone, it does not mean you like them. We all for instance recognise the Member for Ebbw Vale.
Winston Churchill 01/07/1952
Referring to Aneurin Bevan
Category: Insulting Labour
