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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.
- Winston Churchill
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
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One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
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
I always avoid prophesying beforehand,
because it is a much better policy to prophesy
after the event has already taken place.
- Winston Churchill
Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill
I am bored with it all.
- Winston Churchill
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
A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill
I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill
I have taken more out of alcohol
than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill
In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality
by contact with this great novel land of yours
which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
- Winston Churchill
He has all of the virtues I dislike,
and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
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.
- Winston Churchill
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill
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
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- Winston Churchill
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man.
Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
- Winston Churchill
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
This report, by its very length, defends itself
against the risk of being read.
- Winston Churchill
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning
I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
- Winston Churchill
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism
is the unequal sharing of blessings;
the inherent virtue of socialism
is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day.
I think the Church would suit me better.
- Winston Churchill
Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill
I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colors.
I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and
am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Winston Churchill
I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill
The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Winston Churchill
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice,
I would have English Channels round every country.
And the atmosphere would be such that
anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
- Winston Churchill
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
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
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
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
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
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill
When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
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