The more one is absorbed in fighting evil, the less one is tempted to place the good in question.
Jean-Paul Sartre
1874-1965. Full name Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. British politician, twice Prime Minister of United Kingdom.
1. "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."
Categories: Patriotism -:- Authority, Government
2. "We are all worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm."
Categories: Egoism
3. "The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is."
Categories: Truth and Falsity
4. "The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience."
Categories: Politics and Diplomacy
5. "The price of greatness is responsibility."
Categories: Success and Fame -:- Talent and Genius
6. "The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
Categories: Authority, Government -:- Power and Weakness
7. "The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter."
Categories: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy
8. "Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."
Categories: Success and Fame
9. "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
Categories: Truth and Falsity
10. "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time."
Categories: Destiny and Fate
11. "In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left."
Categories: Peace and War
12. "If you are going through hell, keep going."
Categories: Pain and Tears
13. "I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me."
Categories: Health and Alcohol
14. "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."
Categories: History and Nations
15. "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
source: speech at Fulton, Missouri, 1946
Categories: History and Nations
16. "For myself, I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."
Categories: Optimism and Hope
17. "Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."
Categories: Manners and Ethics
18. "Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
Categories: Nature and Animals
19. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Categories: Bravery and Fear -:- Oration and Silence
20. "Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war."
Categories: History and Nations -:- Peace and War
21. "At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. No amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of that point."
Categories: Authority, Government -:- Politics and Diplomacy
22. "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Categories: Various
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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