Quote

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

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
Argument
Objects
Parliament
Substitute
Substitutes
Object

More quotes by Winston Churchill

Image
If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.
Winston Churchill
Image
When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.
Winston Churchill
Image
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
Image
There are bitter weeds in England.
Winston Churchill
Image
The soul of freedom is deathless it cannot, and will not perish.
Winston Churchill
Image
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill
Image
Death and sorrow will be the companions of our journey hardship our garment constancy and valor our only shield. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible.
Winston Churchill
Image
Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.
Winston Churchill
Image
It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.
Winston Churchill
Image
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.
Winston Churchill
Image
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill
Image
This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.
Winston Churchill
Image
Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.
Winston Churchill
Image
...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?
Winston Churchill
Image
Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.
Winston Churchill
Image
Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.
Winston Churchill
Image
And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.
Winston Churchill
Image
In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea.
Winston Churchill
Image
The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
Winston Churchill
Image
The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought.
Winston Churchill