Winston Churchill Quotes About Opinions

• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Change, Business

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

• One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Opinion, Conviction

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

• There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Motivational, Public Opinion

• You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Men, Long

• Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Rights, Political Opinions

  Winston Churchill's speech to the Scottish Unionist Association in Edinburgh, Scotland (September 25, 1924), later published in "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" edited by Robert Rhodes James (Volume 4, p. 3472), 1974.

• If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

  Winston Churchill

  Two, Three, Investing

• When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order.

  Winston Churchill

  Strong, Independent, Government

• It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

  Winston Churchill

  Acceptance, Government, Risk

  Speech in House of Commons, 22 Feb. 1906

• These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

  Winston Churchill

  Science, Gentleman, Facts

• Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

  Winston Churchill

  Truth, Political, Opinion

• I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Heart, Rome

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission" by Winston Churchill, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.

• I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Evil, India

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

• It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

  Winston Churchill

  Allies, Likes, Opinion

  Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The hinge of fate”

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