Winston S. Churchill Quotes

#1. How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

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#2. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

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#3. If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

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#4. Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
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#5. Enemy submarines are to be called U-Boats. The term submarine is to be reserved for Allied under water vessels. U-Boats are those dastardly villains who sink our ships, while submarines are those gallant and noble craft which sink theirs.

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#6. When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

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#7. Never ever give up

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#8. Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

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#9. Success always demands a greater effort.

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#10. Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

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#11. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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#12. Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

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#13. Eating words has never given me indigestion.

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#14. I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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#15. The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

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#16. Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

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#17. Action This Day.

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#18. The most important thing about education is appetite.

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#19. In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will.

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#20. He looks like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath.

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#21. When Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles he observed with singular accuracy: This is not Peace. It is an Armistice for twenty years.

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#22. A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

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#23. We are the masters of our fate.

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#24. To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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#25. The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet.

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#26. Now that we have run out of money we have to think.

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#27. In Germany they had no kings. They developed them in Britain from leaders who claimed descent from the ancient gods.

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#28. We make a living by what we get and make a life by what we give.

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#29. Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe.

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#30. This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.

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#31. To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war

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#32. I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

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#33. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory 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.

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#34. The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.

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#35. I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honour, and Greek as a treat.

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#36. We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

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#37. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.

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#38. One clear-cut result is worth a dozen wise precautions.

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#39. Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

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#40. Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

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#41. People stumble over the truth from time to time,
but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

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#42. Libya, Eritrea, Abyssinia, Somaliland, nourished by Italian taxation, comprised a vast region in which nearly a quarter of a million Italian colonists toiled, and began to thrive, under the protection of more than four hundred thousand Italian and native troops.

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#43. Safari, so goody.

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#44. No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

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#45. Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

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#46. Well, in war, you can only be killed once. But in politics, many times.

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#47. A remarkable and definite victory.
The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers
and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

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#48. I have heard of wars for the defence of the Protestant religion: our enemies in this instance are equally enemies of all religion - of Lutheranism, of Calvinism; and desirous to propagate everywhere, by the force of their arms, that system of infidelity which they avow in their principles. I

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#49. In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield ... march straightforward.

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#50. I decline utterly to be impartial between the fire brigade and the fire.

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#51. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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#52. It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

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#53. Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

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#54. Every 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.

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#55. An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

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#56. Replace it. 7. Please say what you are doing and how you propose to overcome the growing difficulties of sending reinforcements into Singapore. Also, what has been done about reducing number of useless mouths in Singapore Island? What was the reply about supplies? *** It is not possible to pursue

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#57. Anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.

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#58. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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#59. You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.

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#60. Writing a book is an adventure: it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

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#61. A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.

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#62. We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

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#63. Good and great are seldom in the same man.

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#64. I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations

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#65. Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end.
But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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#66. Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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#67. Of course I'm an egoist. Where do you get if you aren't?

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#68. So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

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#69. They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.

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#70. One 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.

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#71. Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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#72. I thought of a remark ... that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

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#73. There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The

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#74. Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

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#75. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

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#76. My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.

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#77. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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#78. All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

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#79. I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

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#80. A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

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#81. No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

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#82. He mobilised the English language and sent it into battle.

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#83. ... The moral philosophy and spiritual conceptions of men and nations should hold their own amid these formidable scientific evolutions ... No material progress, even though it takes shapes we cannot now conceive, or however it may expand the faculties of man, can bring comfort to his soul.

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#84. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

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#85. During this period I usually managed to take two afternoons a week in the areas under attack in Kent or Sussex in order to see for myself what was happening.

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#86. The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

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#87. I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future.

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#88. On November 5 he landed at Torbay, on the coast of Devon. Reminded that it was the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, he remarked to Burnet, What do you think of Predestination now?

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#89. The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

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#90. What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

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#91. Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson.

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#92. When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed ... why should we fear for our future?

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#93. Success is going from one failure to the next without losing enthusiasm

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#94. The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

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#95. Spare the conquered and confront the proud.

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#96. Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.

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#97. When men are fighting for their lives they are not often disposed to be complimentary to those who are trying to kill them.

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#98. The S.A.L.H. were mostly South Africans, with a high proportion of hardbitten adventurers from all quarters of the world, including a Confederate trooper from the American Civil War.

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#99. Drake was finishing his game of bowls;

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#100. When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

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