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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Winston ChurchillEnding a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston ChurchillSome regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston ChurchillThe Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
Winston ChurchillStudy history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston ChurchillThere is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained.
Winston ChurchillCivilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will.
Winston ChurchillCourage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston ChurchillMany forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Winston ChurchillSuccess consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston ChurchillWithout tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston ChurchillIf Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston ChurchillI am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston ChurchillThe British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Winston ChurchillDictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Winston ChurchillThe reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston ChurchillIt was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston ChurchillMy rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
Winston ChurchillThis is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston ChurchillFor good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
Winston ChurchillThere is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Winston ChurchillOn the Soviet Union: It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.
Winston ChurchillDemocracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.
Winston ChurchillIndia is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
Winston ChurchillYou have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston ChurchillCourage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston ChurchillI am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston ChurchillWe shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Winston ChurchillWe have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.
Winston ChurchillIt has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston ChurchillI was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston ChurchillMost people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
Winston ChurchillWhen I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.
Winston ChurchillMy most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston ChurchillThose who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston ChurchillNo idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston ChurchillAlthough personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston ChurchillIt is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.
Winston ChurchillWant of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the.
Winston ChurchillThe inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston ChurchillNever in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston ChurchillBaldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston ChurchillFor myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Winston ChurchillBroadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Winston ChurchillThis report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston ChurchillTo build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston ChurchillGolf is a game whose aim it is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
Winston ChurchillContinuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston ChurchillDo not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston ChurchillNothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston ChurchillIt's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Winston ChurchillIf the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Winston ChurchillPerhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston ChurchillWe have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston ChurchillResponding to an accusation that he was conceived out of wedlock: Although present on the occasion, I have no recollection of the events leading up to it.
Winston ChurchillHow dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.
Winston ChurchillI always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston ChurchillThe problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston ChurchillThere is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Winston ChurchillIf you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston ChurchillNever hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston ChurchillSoviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.
Winston ChurchillThe truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Winston ChurchillWar is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston ChurchillAll the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillThe poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.
Winston ChurchillOne ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston ChurchillCriticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston ChurchillIt is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston ChurchillMen occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
Winston ChurchillIf you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
Winston ChurchillSure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
Winston ChurchillIn the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Winston ChurchillI may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Winston ChurchillMr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Winston ChurchillNever give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston ChurchillMan will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Winston ChurchillBefore Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
Winston ChurchillThere are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston ChurchillIt is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston ChurchillI have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Winston ChurchillIn war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Winston ChurchillMeeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston ChurchillThere are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston ChurchillThe great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston ChurchillYou can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Winston ChurchillI am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
Winston ChurchillWe make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston ChurchillIn those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
Winston ChurchillI always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston ChurchillNo part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
Winston ChurchillPolitics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Winston ChurchillIt is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
Winston ChurchillEvery day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Winston ChurchillIf the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston ChurchillThese are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston ChurchillIt is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston ChurchillAn appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston ChurchillHowever beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston ChurchillSuccess is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston ChurchillOn never finishing a sentence with a preposition: Up with this stupidity I will not put.
Winston ChurchillNow this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Winston ChurchillReally I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Winston ChurchillWe shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston ChurchillTrue genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston ChurchillMy wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
Winston ChurchillThe power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Winston ChurchillSuccess is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston ChurchillNo comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston ChurchillIf you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston ChurchillI cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston ChurchillPolitics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston ChurchillIn wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston ChurchillPlay the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston ChurchillFrom Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston ChurchillFor my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston ChurchillA socialist policy is abhorrent to British ideas on freedom. A socialist state could not afford to suffer opposition - no socialist system can be established without a political police.
Winston ChurchillA prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston ChurchillI am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston ChurchillWhen you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Winston ChurchillThey say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Winston ChurchillWhen the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston ChurchillSome men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.
Winston ChurchillBattles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston ChurchillUpon hearing of the love affair between Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend: What a delightful match. A lovely young royal lady married to a gallant young airman, safe from the perils and horrors of war.
Winston ChurchillVictory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
Winston ChurchillSome people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston ChurchillI am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Winston ChurchillThe whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Winston ChurchillAlthough the fate of Poland stares them in the face, there are thoughtless dilettanti or purblind wordlings who sometimes ask us, 'What is it that Britain and France are fighting for?' To this I answer, 'If we left off fighting you would soon find out!'
Winston ChurchillA politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston ChurchillAlways remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston ChurchillA lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston ChurchillSo the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Winston ChurchillWriting a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
Winston ChurchillThe length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston ChurchillWe are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
Winston ChurchillThe best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston ChurchillWhen I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Winston ChurchillWe contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston ChurchillIf we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston ChurchillThe nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
Winston ChurchillWhen told by Nancy Astor that if she were his wife she would poison his tea: If I were your husband, I would drink it.
Winston ChurchillIt is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Winston ChurchillA vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.
Winston ChurchillIt is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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