13 Winston Churchill Quotes on Power

Winston Churchill quotes on power

36. The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

37. So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

41. I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.

63. The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

80. Baldwin, Stanley ... confesses putting party before country, 169-70; ...

101. A group of pagan ruffians and pirates had gained possession of an effective military and naval machine, but they faced a mass of formidable veterans whom they had to feed and manage, and for whom they must provide killings. Such men make plans, and certainly their descent upon England was one of the most carefully considered and elaborately prepared villainies of that dark time.

122. Dictators ride to and fro on tigers they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

126. Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never been invested.

131. History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.

152. Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

168. The Hun is either at your throat or at your feet.

195. When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

198. When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.