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Winston Churchill Quotes about Politics

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The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

Winston Churchill
Vices, Politics, Misery

You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

Winston Churchill
Government, Politics, Conservative

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

Winston Churchill
Political, Police, Politics

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Winston Churchill
Political, Term Limits, Politics

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Winston Churchill
Politics, Worship, Socialism

You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

Winston Churchill
War, Choices, Politics
Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “Memoral Addresses and Tributes”

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

Winston Churchill
Victory, Politics, Path

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Winston Churchill
Politics, Opponents, Politician
Winston Churchill's speech at the Institute of Journalists Dinner in London (November 17,1906), as quoted in "Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations" edited by Richard Langworth (p. 392), 2008.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

Winston Churchill
War, Politics, Dangerous

The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

Winston Churchill
Triumph, Politics, Bounds
"WSC: A Midnight Interview". Winston Churchill's speech and interview at the University of Michigan, winstonchurchill.org. 1902.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

Winston Churchill
Government, People, Politics
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

Winston Churchill
Government, Done, Politics
Sir Winston Churchill (1939). “Step by Step: 1936-1939”, Ayer Company Pub

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

Winston Churchill
Politics, Imperialism, Form
Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

Winston Churchill
Politics, United States, Alternatives

Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

Winston Churchill
Political, Politics, Affair

Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.

Winston Churchill
Husband, Poison, Politics
Attributed in Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan, Glitter and Gold (1952).

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

Winston Churchill
Fire, United States, Politics

For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

Winston Churchill
Accountability, Political, Politics
The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

Winston Churchill
Successful, Political, Politics
Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.583, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.

Winston Churchill
Fun, Political, Politics
My Early Life (1930) ch. 2

A world united is better than a world divided, but a world divided is better than a world destroyed.

Winston Churchill
Political, World, Politics

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

Winston Churchill
Government, House, Politics
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

Winston Churchill
Government, Wish, Politics
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

Winston Churchill
Men, Politics, France
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself.

Winston Churchill
Nice, Devil, Politics

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