Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.'
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous ... [I]n war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward ... Let us have no fear of the future.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the equator.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Make your minds perfectly clear that if ever you let loose upon us again a general strike, we will loose upon you another "British Gazette."
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
[The] truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill