65 Quotes by Andrew Roberts

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings,’ he said in a debate in October. ‘The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

He had that ruthless side without which great affairs cannot be handled.

What is money made for except to spend?

I realized that I must be on my best behaviour,’ as he later put it, ’punctual, subdued, reserved; in short, display all the qualities with which I am least endowed.

Yet in all the anxiety of these days Churchill never lost his sense of humour. When an MP asked him on 8 June to ensure that the same mistakes over reparations were not made after victory that had been made after the Great War, the Prime Minister assured him that ‘That is most fully in our minds. I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated. We shall probably make another set of mistakes.

In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. Churchill.

His high, uplifting oratory during the Second World War was clearly prefigured more than thirty years earlier.

This was a time when it was equally good to live or die. Churchill, Their Finest Hour.

The most important was not to threaten to resign unless one is prepared to go into the wilderness. If one is not so prepared, then only threaten to resign along with several other people capable of bringing down the Government.