Winston Churchill Quotes

The maxim of the British people is "Business as usual."
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The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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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.
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The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
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The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
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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.
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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
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There is no such thing as a good tax.
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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
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There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
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There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement around our table.
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These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
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They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
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They told me that Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
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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.
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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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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
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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.
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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
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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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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.
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
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We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.
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We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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We 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.
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
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When 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.
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When 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.
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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
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When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
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When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
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When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to defend myself.
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Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement; then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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