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To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.


Winston S. Churchill

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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you are going through hell, keep going.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." WINSTON S. CHURCHILL He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or pett...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Never, never, never give in!
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to c...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The price of greatness is responsibility.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the hum...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under wat...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Perhaps we have been guilty of some terminological inexactitudes.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conf...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you're going through hell, keep going.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL A kite flies against the wind, not with it.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you ca...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has alre...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
WINSTON CHURCHILL In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
WINSTON CHURCHILL When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I s...
WINSTON CHURCHILL For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to histor...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
WINSTON CHURCHILL To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
WINSTON CHURCHILL History is written by the victors.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
WINSTON CHURCHILL War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
WINSTON CHURCHILL 'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t...
WINSTON CHURCHILL When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
WINSTON CHURCHILL No crime is so great as daring to excel.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I never worry about action, but only inaction.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
WINSTON CHURCHILL One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do...
WINSTON CHURCHILL This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
WINSTON CHURCHILL My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alco...
WINSTON CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarante...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I am easily satisfied with the very best.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Never, never, never give up.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is in the details.
WINSTON CHURCHILL For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
WINSTON CHURCHILL The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not...
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