Quotes About Politics

A country like my own, Britain – which still occupies Gilbraltar captured in the 18th century, the Falklands captured in the 19th century and the Channel Islands which belonged to France until 1468, and rightly so in each case – is being absurdly hypocritical when it criticises Israel for retaining territory vital to her survival, which Gilbraltar, the Falklands and the Channel Island certainly aren't to Britain's.

Pacificism was rife at the time Ã¢â'¬â€œ 11.6 million Britons signed the League of Nations' 'Peace Ballot' in 1934–5 Ã¢â'¬â€œ and it was far easier psychologically for people to portray Churchill as a warmonger

la ausencia de la fe cristiana había determinado que el credo churchilliano girase en torno al imperio británico.

Although it is fashionable to decry President Trump's present-day use of Twitter to communicate directly with the electorate, it is a device that would probably have been used by most leaders if they had been able.

There is a fascinating dichotomy in that, although the appeasement movement was intended to prevent another war breaking out, most of its leaders had not seen action in the Great War, whereas most of the anti-appeasers had.

The Daily Express declares that Britain will not be involved in a European war this year, or next year either'.

Hatred plays the same part in Government as acids in chemistry

how little friendship counted at the top of politics

There are two people who sink U-boats in this war, Talbot,' he said. 'You sink them in the Atlantic and I sink them in the House of Commons. The trouble is that you are sinking them at exactly half the rate I am.

set up to study the tactics and equipment required to defeat Japan, even recommended the use of mustard and phosgene gas against underground enemy positions, and was supported in this by Army Chief of Staff George Marshall and Supreme Commander General Douglas MacArthur, but it was vetoed by President Roosevelt.

Above all, he was the first significant political figure to spot the twin totalitarian dangers of Communism and Nazism, and to point out the best ways of dealing with both.

am in favour of government of the people, for the people, but not by the people

No voice, no brains; just break up a meeting that they have not the wit to address. The electors will know how to deal with a party whose only weapon is idiotic clamour.'143

Socialism is bad,' he said, 'jingoism is worse, and the two combined in a kind of debased Italian Fascism is the worst creed ever designed by man.

a new Party will arise like perhaps the Republican Party of the United States of America Ã¢â'¬â€œ rich, materialist, and secular Ã¢â'¬â€œ whose opinions will turn on tariffs, and who will cause the lobbies to be crowded with the touts of protected industries.

Pocas plagas socavan tanto una sociedad como la hiperinflación, y el premio político para el que pudiese acabar con ella era enorme.

The breadth of Churchill's hinterland – his many and varied interests beyond politics – meant that he could regard politics with more detachment than most professional politicians, and thus not make the compromises others did in order to gain, or remain in, office.

In both parties there are fools at one end and crackpots at the other,' he said, 'but the great body in the middle is sound and wise.'70

I could have defended the British Empire against anyone,' he told an aide later on, 'except the British people.

Placing oneself in the limelight while seeming modestly to edge away from it is one of the most skilful of all political moves, and Napoleon had mastered it perfectly.

The deeper and subtler effects of the economic dimension of globalization intensify the politics of insecurity.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

The relationship of black Americans to Obama is sociologically riveting.

Here's why I find it impossible to be a Republican: any crowd that instantly cheers the execution of 234 individuals is a crowd I want to flee, not join.