Winston Churchill Quotes About Parties

• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Witty, Party

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

• A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

  Winston Churchill

  Humorous, Party, Drinking

• A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Party, Men

• The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

  Winston Churchill

  Sports, Strong, Party

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “Memoral Addresses and Tributes”

• They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Political, Fit

  "The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill".

• One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

  Winston Churchill

  Happiness, Party, Leave Me Alone

• Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Book, Party

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.613, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Party, Years

  "Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches". Book by Robert Rhodes James, vol. 8, p. 8,326, 1974.

• The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Men, Add

  Winston Churchill, Colin Coote, Ryōichi Amano (1965). “チャ-チル名言集”

• Socialism would gather all power to
  the supreme party and party leaders,
  rising like stately pinnacles
  above their vast bureaucracies of
  civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Leader, Rising

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

• All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Party, Technique

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Eye, Fighting

• For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Writing, Past

  Speech in House of Commons, 23 Jan. 1948

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