Quotes from Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill: Beer
Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.
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Winston Churchill: Humor
Shaw: I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.
Churchill: Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.
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Winston Churchill: Liberty
If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
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Winston Churchill: Politics
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
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Winston Churchill: Taxes
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
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Winston Churchill: Military
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
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