If there was one principle which had kept our Civil Service and public service free from corruption it was the test of a competitive examination.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 13 July 1905

I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

Winston Churchill · Article “Consistency in Politics”, Pall Mall, July 1927

At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?

Winston Churchill · To Michael Collins, who complained that a price had been put on his head

More Political Quotes

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle · Politics, V, 2

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain · Following the Equator (1897), Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch. 8

Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Garrett Hardin · The source reads: “Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.” · The Tragedy of the Commons (1968)

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“If there was one principle which had kept our Civil Service and public service free from corruption it was the test of a competitive examination.”

“I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.”

“Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.”

“At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?”

“Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.”

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

“Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.”