Quotes by Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, FRS, PC (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, historian, writer, and artist. He was the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first person to be recognized as an Honorary Citizen of the United States.

Taxing to prosperity

Fri, 09/10/2010 - 10:10am — DaveL

We 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.

Fri, 11/27/2009 - 6:58pm — DaveL

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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