Quotes About Churchill

Churchill was in the lavatory in the House of Commons and his secretary knocked on the door and said: Excuse me Prime Minister, but the Lord Privy Seal wishes to speak to you. After a pause Churchill replied: Tell His Lordship: I'm sealed on The Privy and can only deal with one shit at a time

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged.

This is a strange Christmas Eve,Churchill told the the crowd of several hundred gathered at the mansion's garden.Almost the whole world is locked in deadly struggle, and with the most terrible weapons which science can devise the nations advance upon each other.

This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Churchill: The strangling of Bolshevism at its birth would have been an untold blessing to the human race. Mr. Seymour Cocks (Labor Party): If that had happened we should have lost the 1939 -45 war. Churchill: No, it would have prevented that war. [Speech in the House of Commons, May 11,1953]

Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice

Virtuous motives, trammelled by inertia and timidity, are no match for armed and resolute wickedness.

It is alarming and also nauseating to see Mr. Gandhi, an Inner Temple lawyer, now become a seditious fakir of a type well known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Viceregal Palace, while he is still organizing and conducting a defiant campaign of civil disobedience, to parley on equal terms with the representative of the King-Emperor. [February 23, 1931]

But you ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

I have adhered to my rule of never criticising any measure of war or policy after the event unless I had before expressed publicly or formally my opinion or warning about it.

There had been many signs during the Conference that the Soviet Government sincerely desired permanent friendship with Britain and the United States.

I, whose youth was passed in the august, unchallenged and tranquil glories of the Victorian era, may well feel a thrill in invoking once more the prayer and the anthem, "God save the Queen!

The determination of the greatest military Power on the Continent to become at the same time at least the second naval Power was an event of first magnitude in world affairs.

was that the possibility of Singapore having no landward defences no more entered into my mind than that of a battleship being launched without a bottom.

The safety of the world requires a new unity in Europe, from which no nation should be permanently outcast.

if the issue were presented to the British as a naked trading away of British possessions for sake of the fifty destroyers it would certainly encounter vehement opposition.

I never had any doubts about it, for I saw quite plainly that Communism would be the peril civilisation would have to face after the defeat of Nazism and Fascism.

The only guide to a man is his conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

I do most earnestly beg you not to be diverted from the highway of sound policy in this part of the world, both during the war and at the settlement, by wanderings into the labyrinth of Turkish duplicity and intrigue.

Enmities which are unspoken and hidden are more to be feared than those which are outspoken and open.' —CICERO.