I was perusing a website and came across someone’s list of favorite Churchill quotes.
Some of them still hit the head, 7 decades later. A few that really struck me.
“Study history, study history—in history lie all the secrets of statecraft.”
“It is the people who control the Government—not the Government the people.”
“{An appeaser} hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last.”
“We must beware of trying to build a society in which no one counts for anything except a politician or an official, or a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.”
“Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”
“Dangers which are warded off and difficulties which are overcome before they reach a crisis are utterly unrecognized. Eaten bread is soon forgotten.”
And this one struck me as quite appropriate to today.
“we must beware of a tyranny of opinion which tries to make only one side of a question the one which may be heard. Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.”
Here is the link to the whole article: https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/the-best-winston-churchill-quotes/
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“Success is not final; failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. ”
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy..”
And one attributed to him, but I haven’t been able to confirm: “Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which will not put.”
I almost crapped myself when the Obama administration returned the bust of Winston Churchill that sat in the Whitehouse for decades. I hope the British will understand that was a mistake and give it back someday.
Ol’ Winnie had a lot of very good ideas. His commentary about Islam in The River Wars is one that has stuck with me for a very long time. Having seen the same thing first hand but having read the commentary beforehand I was prepared to see things through Winston Churchill’s eyes. And he was right.
He may have been one of the first “politically incorrect” people in public life, to the detriment of his own career early on. But he was who he was and extremely comfortable in his own skin. It is shameful that his apt analysis of Islam has been memory-holed to such an extent. See his quote on history, knowledge of statecraft can be found in our past.