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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contrad...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerit...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their wil...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or pet...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Responsibility is the price of greatness.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
There is no such thing as a good tax.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit t...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponen...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL