Winston Churchill Quotes About Home

• You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

  Winston Churchill

  Powerful, Fear, Home

  "The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights are Going Out)", radio broadcast to the United States and to London, October 16, 1938.

• When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Home, Government

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

• We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Shapes, Interior Design

• There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

  Winston Churchill

  Family, Home, Doubt

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

• Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.

  Winston Churchill

  Travel, Home, Names

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

• We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Dwelling, Shapes

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

• Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Men, Goal

• The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  Winston Churchill

  Gratitude, War, Home

  Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

• The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Home, Independent

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.114, A&C Black

• How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

  Winston Churchill

  Educational, Home, School

• This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Home, America

• I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

  Winston Churchill

  Sports, Country, Home

• There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. Having a family guarantees that you have a built in support system, and although that support system may not always be what you want it to be, when it comes down to the wire, your family will love you and stand behind you, no matter what.

  Winston Churchill

  Love You, Home, Guarantees That

• The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Butterfly, Journey

  Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

• Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Home, Government

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