Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
[The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie.
Winston Churchill
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Lying
Expected
Politician
Asked
Wants
Stand
More quotes by Winston Churchill
The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.
Winston Churchill
Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.
Winston Churchill
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
Winston Churchill
In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.
Winston Churchill
We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.
Winston Churchill
Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.
Winston Churchill
It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.
Winston Churchill
It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events.
Winston Churchill
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
Winston Churchill
We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
Winston Churchill
In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.
Winston Churchill
Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
Winston Churchill
Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.
Winston Churchill
In war, the truth must be guarded by a body guard of lies.
Winston Churchill
The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.
Winston Churchill
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars.
Winston Churchill
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Winston Churchill
To improve is to change.
Winston Churchill
Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.
Winston Churchill
You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem it is they who made it famous.
Winston Churchill
