Winston Churchill quotes


  • There is no such thing as a good tax.
  • The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
  • An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last.
  • A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
  • A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
  • If you are going to go through hell, keep going.
  • It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
  • History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
  • The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
  • The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
  • Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.
  • Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
  • It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.