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Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.


Winston S. Churchill

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JACK KEROUAC I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might ne...
NEIL CAVUTO Woe betide the man who refuses to conform.
EUGENE IONESCO But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.
GEORGE ORWELL I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the...
C.S. LEWIS Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Like Winston Churchill said, 'Never give up,' and I won't give up. It's a miracle th...
CRISTINA SARALEGUI I'm the American Winston Churchill.
MICHAEL MORIARTY The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, unders...
JEFFREY SACHS I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than...
NEIL GAIMAN There is, I am sensible, an age at which every individual of you would choose to stop; and you will ...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU But thing in the past are like plate that’s shattered to pieces. You can never put it back togethe...
HARUKI MURAKAMI The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
JACK KEROUAC I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the...
JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
JACK KEROUAC Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS What (Winston) Churchill did in wartime, Margaret Thatcher did in peacetime.
MICHAEL HOWARD ...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
RAYMOND E. FEIST ...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a...
JACK KEROUAC This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)

"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER Be bold - there's enough Neville Chamberlains in the world; be a Winston Churchill, for crying o...
MATT BEVIN When I moved to Los Angeles, aged 54, I printed out Winston Churchill's phrase, 'Never, neve...
ALAN DALE I love English. I learned it from the speeches of Winston Churchill.
MAURICE DRUON [...] no one had lived up to the roles they acted out in public. They wasted their years trying to l...
MARILYN MANSON Success in life is determined by your ability to go from failure to failure without loss of enthusia...
WINSTON CHURCHILL In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should firs...
RICK ATKINSON After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS What's Your Road, Man?
JACK KEROUAC Next time I expect you to act a little friendlier and remember that we would like to get out of here...
TRACEY WARD Merry Christmas.” he says quietly, pulling something from his back pocket.
I frown in confusi...
TRACEY WARD Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I ...
DIETRICH BONHOEFFER ... I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And y...
KAREN TAYLEUR Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON Everybody is on the run. Either from something or someone.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our ...
SARAH VOWELL Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow
CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER He felt as if his heart had dried up. I needed her he thought. I needed someone like her to fill the...
HARUKI MURAKAMI He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD Any part of what was heard can be added in a conference committee. Everything is still on the table.
HENRY CURTIS Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquoi...
RACHEL BLANCHARD The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON But I am a knight of the Round Table," he protested, weakly. "I am a protector of the realm, a slaye...
TANYA HUFF We will certainly investigate on a case by case basis, ... We should also look at the fact that some...
JUWONO SUDARSONO You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. (Exchange with Winston Churchill)
Churchill explains that having a woman in Parliament was like...
NANCY ASTOR THE VISCOUNTESS ASTOR We have looked at everything on the table and cleared away what we don't need,
JOSE MANUEL BARROSO 'Freaky Friday' was really fun. They had a ping-pong table on set because Jamie Lee Curtis i...
CAYDEN BOYD I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchil...
ALEXANDER HAIG Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred t...
MAC THORNBERRY Rehashing the past wouldn't change anything. Time to move forward.
ZENA WYNN I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.
JEFF BECK I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES People forget that Omar Bradley went all around World War II with a big black poodle named Beau. And...
STANLEY COREN Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Win...
WINSTON CHURCHILL To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of pre...
RONALD REAGAN During the dance of Giants, common man gets stomped on.
BEN OAK Media censorship is a prohibition of words and pictures. The war on drugs is a complete failure, and...
OLIVER MARKUS Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
ILONA ANDREWS Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. Those of us who a...
RICHARD FEYNMAN It turned out to be just his sort of life in Melbourne [Florida] -- a little three-room mini apartme...
WELLS TOWER We think a flower on a cliff is beautiful Because we stop our feet at the cliff's edge Unable to ste...
SOSUKE AIZEN Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
ALLISON BURNETT What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are co...
J.I. PACKER Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
ROBERT BRAULT Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring...
ILONA ANDREWS Well, yelling real loud, that's an important skill to have, too. You never know when you might walk ...
DIANE HAMMOND Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione.
JACK KEROUAC I am who I say I am,
I'm not some fantasy
of how you think you think you know
or who ...
JAMES HOWE No matter how angry she was at him, she'd never deprive him of the change to see one of the ruins he...
KASS MORGAN The conference itself is not a place of debate, ... They don't engage across the conference table.
EDWARD LAZARUS And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
C.S. LEWIS I have more in common with a three-toed sloth or a one-eyed pterodactyl or a Kalamata olive than I h...
BORIS JOHNSON Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is o...
SRI MULYANI INDRAWATI Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothin...
WINSTON CHURCHILL As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON A man dreams of a miracle and wakes up to loaves of bread.
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CHRISTIAN SLATER She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

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We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad t...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singula...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy p...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL ...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was orig...
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.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you are going through hell, keep going.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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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.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most gr...
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!
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
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.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of soci...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in th...
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.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior al...
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.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Ch...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You create your own universe as you go along.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on th...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour o...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most gr...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is ligh...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the d...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecke...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I'm bored with it all.

- Last Words
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL -Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè.
-Madam, se lei fosse mia moglie, io lo...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its sce...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Great Britain will certainly do her utmost to organise a coalition resistance to any act of aggressi...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL My education was interrupted only by my schooling.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The Pessimist Sees Difficulty In Every Opportunity. The Optimist Sees Opportunity In Every Difficult...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with ha...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war s...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the tru...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property—eithe...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only t...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Indeed it is evident that Christianity, however degraded and distorted by cruelty and intolerance, m...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL That religion, which above all others was founded and propagated by the sword—the tenets and princ...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end o...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shou...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of people...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistre...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law...
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.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. Wh...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start t...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always fo...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot...
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.
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand befo...
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.
WINSTON CHURCHILL No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the pat...
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.
WINSTON CHURCHILL When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun...
WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...
WINSTON CHURCHILL What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cea...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
WINSTON CHURCHILL War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep...
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.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket...
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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