A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill Quote
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill Quote
A 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 Churchill Quote
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
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Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
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Criticism 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 Churchill Quote
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
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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.
- Winston Churchill Quote
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill Quote
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill Quote
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
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History is written by the victors.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill Quote
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill Quote
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
- Winston Churchill Quote
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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I 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 Churchill Quote
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill Quote
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill Quote
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill Quote
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill Quote
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill Quote
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill Quote
I never worry about action, but only inaction.
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I 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.
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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill Quote
If 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 Churchill Quote
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill Quote
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill Quote
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
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If 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.
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In 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.
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In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
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In 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 Churchill Quote
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill Quote
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
- Winston Churchill Quote
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill Quote
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill Quote
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations... The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill Quote
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill Quote
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill Quote
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill Quote
It 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 Churchill Quote
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
- Winston Churchill Quote
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
- Winston Churchill Quote
My 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 Churchill Quote
My 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 Churchill Quote
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill Quote
"No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill Quote
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill Quote
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
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Nothing 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.
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Winston Churchill Quote
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
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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. Never run away from anything. Never!
- Winston Churchill Quote
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Politics is 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 Churchill Quote
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill Quote
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 Churchill Quote
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Some 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 Churchill Quote
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill Quote
The 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 Churchill Quote
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill Quote
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
- Winston Churchill Quote
There 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 Churchill Quote
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill Quote
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill Quote
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
- Winston Churchill Quote
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Those 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 Churchill Quote
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Winston Churchill Quote
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill Quote
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 Churchill Quote
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.
- Winston Churchill Quote
War 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 Churchill Quote
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
- Winston Churchill Quote
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
- Winston Churchill Quote
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
- Winston Churchill Quote
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill Quote
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill Quote
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- Winston Churchill Quote
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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