Quote

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

Winston Churchill

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
Autobiographer
Biographer
Historian
Journalist
Military Officer
Painter
Politician
Screenwriter
Statesman
Statesperson
Boston
Massachusetts
Winston Spencer Churchill
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (Lord)
Charles Maurin
David Winter
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
The Honourable Sir Winston Spencer Churchill
Colonel Warden
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill
Winston
Sir Churchill
Sir Leonard Spencer
Winston Leonard Spencer
Sir Churchill
Winston Churchill (Sir)
Sir W
Objects
Wife
Reactionary
Called
Reactionaries
Children
Murdered
Men
Stolen
Sarcastic
Russia
Property

More quotes by Winston Churchill

Image
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill
Image
Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat.
Winston Churchill
Image
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
Image
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill
Image
Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
Winston Churchill
Image
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
Winston Churchill
Image
Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.
Winston Churchill
Image
No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.
Winston Churchill
Image
Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.
Winston Churchill
Image
Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.
Winston Churchill
Image
After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.
Winston Churchill
Image
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill
Image
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill
Image
Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.
Winston Churchill
Image
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
Image
Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
Winston Churchill
Image
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
Image
Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.
Winston Churchill
Image
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
Winston Churchill
Image
I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.
Winston Churchill