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The quotations of

Winston Churchill

British statesman, soldier and writer

1874–1965

90 quotes, most often on War & Peace, Politics and Clever Jabs.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel or envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Speech at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland (28 May 1948)
- Government
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.
In the House of Commons (18 April 1947), cited in The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations (1996), Jay, Oxford University Press, p. 93.
- Government
The great principle which this house ought to guard and cherish is that, when the tax collector comes to the private citizen and takes from him of his wealth for the services of the public, the whole of that money taken shall go for the purposes for which it is intended, and that no private interests, however powerfully they may be organized and however eloquently advocated, shall thrust their dirty fingers into the pie and take the profits for themselves.
- Government
So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all powerful to be impotent.
Speech in the House of Commons, November 12, 1936 “Debate on the Address”, criticizing Stanley Baldwin’s record on rearmament against Hitler.
- Clever Jabs
- Government

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