Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. Winston Churchill More Quotes by Winston Churchill More Quotes From Winston Churchill You create your own universe as you go along. Winston Churchill law-of-attractionspiritualitywise Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves. Winston Churchill arguingwittyfunny The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside. Winston Churchill tiredpowerfulwar I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught. Winston Churchill curioustaughtcuriosity My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. Winston Churchill vetosilenthands Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses. Winston Churchill navyhorserace The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind. Winston Churchill faithful-servantsimportantrealization Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Winston Churchill readingmilitaryart I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. Winston Churchill familyhappinesslove Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. Winston Churchill savingenergyworld I like a man who grins when he fights. Winston Churchill intelligentfightingsweet Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. Winston Churchill cynicalpoliticalwar The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion. Winston Churchill throwingstatesbelief Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts. Winston Churchill fearheartpeace You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure. Winston Churchill sportscharactermen [Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool. Winston Churchill tyrantsfoolbalance A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it. Winston Churchill biggerlyingneeds The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed. Winston Churchill loyaltymistakesleep Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance. Winston Churchill victorypoliticspath When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck! Winston Churchill threefightingwar
