Quote #179

There should be on great occasions a sense of crowd and urgency. There should be a sense of the importance of much that is said, and a sense that great matters are being decided, there and then by the House... It has a collective personality which enjoys the regard of the public, and which imposes itself upon the conduct not only of individual Members but of parties.

More from Winston Churchill

  1. The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself…
  2. The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.
  3. There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
  4. The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.
  5. There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
  6. The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learnt to like it.
  7. There's less to him than meets the eye.
  8. This is Winston Churchill speaking. If you have a microphone in my room it is a waste of time. I do not talk in my sleep

All Winston Churchill quotes