Winston Churchill

"The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself."


"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."


"Definition of a politician: he is asked to stand, he wants to sit, he is expected to lie."


A female admirer quipped, "Doest it thrill you...to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?" Churchill replied, "It is quite flattering, but whenever I feel this way I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big."


"It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift."


"If you destroy a free market you create a black market."


"Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon."

"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." - Winston Churchill

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time,
but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."
– Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)