Top 100 Winston Churchill Quotes
#1. Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
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#2. It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.
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#3. At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.
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#5. We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.
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#9. Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages.
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#10. The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant.
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#11. We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.
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#12. For 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.
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#13. No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.
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#14. If you travel the earth, you will find it is largely divided into two classes of people-people who say 'I wonder why such and such is not done" and people who say "Now who is going to prevent me from doing that thing?"
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#15. Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.
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#16. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
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#17. One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.
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#18. The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.
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#19. I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
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#20. Do not criticize your government when out of the country. Never cease to do so when at home
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#22. When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!
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#23. Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.
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#24. Bearing ourselves humbly before God ... we await undismayed the impending assault ... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none.
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#25. We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations
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#26. Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty ...
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#27. Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
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#28. My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.
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#29. When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
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#30. The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you
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#31. Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
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#33. I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.
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#35. The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.
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#36. I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.
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#39. There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.
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#40. The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.
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#41. Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.
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#42. Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument ... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.
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#43. It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.
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#44. We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.
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#45. There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.
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#46. We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.
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#47. To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.
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#48. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
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#49. I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.
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#50. The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.
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#51. The poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.
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#52. Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
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#53. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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#54. Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.
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#55. The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.
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#56. It 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.
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#57. Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.
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#58. Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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#59. Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.
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#61. Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.
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#63. Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.
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#64. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
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#65. Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?
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#67. I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
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#68. In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
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#70. The high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.
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#71. Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.
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#72. When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne
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#73. Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
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#74. We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.
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#75. When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!
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#76. Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon ... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.
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#78. The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.
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#81. The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power.
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#82. He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.
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#83. I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.
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#84. It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.
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#85. Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing
after exhausting every other possible alternative.
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#86. The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.
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#87. When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.
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#88. Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.
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#90. Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.
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#93. When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'
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#94. I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head ...
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#96. My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.
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#97. Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?
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#99. One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.
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#100. The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.
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