Winston Churchill Quotes About Politicians

• Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

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

• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Educational, Humorous

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.
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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Leadership, Education

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

• If you're going through hell, keep going.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Humorous, Next Week

  In B. Adler Churchill Wit (1965) p. 4

• Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

  Winston Churchill

  Business, Humorous, Hypocrite

  Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

• A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Truth, Honesty

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Freedom, Independent

  Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

• A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Witty, Clothes

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.1089, RosettaBooks

• Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Winston Churchill

  Being Strong, Encouraging, Courage

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

• History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

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

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Party, Men

• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Being Strong

  "Attitude : The Power of Positivity". Book by Dr Kenneth Morton, p.56, 2011.

• The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, War, Men

• When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Confidence

• If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Time

• I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

  Winston Churchill

  Politics, Opponents, Politician

  Winston Churchill's speech at the Institute of Journalists Dinner in London (November 17,1906), as quoted in "Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations" edited by Richard Langworth (p. 392), 2008.

• No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Fighting, Political

  Winston Churchill (1947). “Great Contemporaries”

• There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant.

  Winston Churchill

  Philosophy, Years, Law

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

• We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges

  Winston Churchill

  Trying, Rewards, Gains

  Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

• I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Writing, Political

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