Quotes of Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

What a delightful match. A lovely young Royal lady married to a gallant young airman, safe from the perils and horrors of war. - upon hearing of the love affair between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Up with this stupidity I will not put. (His view on never finishing a sentence with a preposition.)

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

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