It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Winston ChurchillRead
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Cherishing traditions can fortify a nation during challenging times.
Winston Churchill emphasizes that a strong appreciation for tradition contributes positively to a nation's resilience. Rather than diminishing a nation's strength, traditions serve as a source of unity and stability, particularly in moments of crisis when solidarity and shared history can provide crucial support.
Themes
TraditionStrengthNationPerilResilience
In practice
Example use cases
In a rally emphasizing national pride, a speaker might invoke Churchill's quote to highlight the importance of tradition.
More from Winston Churchill
All quotes βThe United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.
Winston ChurchillRead
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston ChurchillRead
I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
Winston ChurchillRead
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.
Winston ChurchillRead
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston ChurchillRead
Similar quotes
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.
Emma WatsonRead
I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons and wheels and little forgotten treasures, fans upon whose feathers love has scattered its blossoms, glasses, knives and scissors -- all bear the trace of someone's fingers on their handle or surface, the trace of a distant hand lost in the depths of forgetfulness.
Pablo NerudaRead
When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul.
Abraham LincolnRead
Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mystical of cosmic forces. Love is the primal and universal psychic energy. Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.
Pierre Teilhard De ChardinRead
Love is the Water of Life Everything other than love for the most beautiful God is agony of the spirit, though it be sugar- eating. What is agony of the spirit? To advance toward death without seizing hold of the Water of Life.
RumiRead
I believe that marriage isn't between a man and woman; but between love and love.
Frank OceanRead