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Winston Churchill Quotes and Sayings (2)
Quotes by Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race,
all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
- Winston Churchill

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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
- Winston Churchill

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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable
than the fighting of elections.
- 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

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails,
and then asks you not to kill him.
- Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up.
- 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

Study history, study history.
In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
- Winston Churchill

India is a geographical term.
It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
- Winston Churchill

Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill

We are asking the nations of Europe
between whom rivers of blood have flowed
to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
- Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government,
except all the others that have been tried.
- 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

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill

In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives,
I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
- 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

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing -
after they've tried everything else.
- Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
- Winston Churchill

The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill

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.
- Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Winston Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
- Winston Churchill

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

There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill

Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile,
hoping it will eat him last.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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.
- Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as a good tax.
- Winston Churchill

I am bored with it all.
- Winston Churchill

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
- 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

When you are winning a war
almost everything that happens
can be claimed to be right and wise.
- Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
- Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver.
The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver,
the less he demands in slaughter.
- Winston Churchill

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

These are not dark days: these are great days -
the greatest days our country has ever lived.
- Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.
- Winston Churchill

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

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.
- Winston Churchill

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.
- Winston Churchill

"No comment" is a splendid expression.
I am using it again and again.
- Winston Churchill

The best argument against democracy is
a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston Churchill

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

I have taken more out of alcohol
than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill

These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning
I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
- 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

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

Do not let spacious plans for a new world
divert your energies from saving
what is left of the old.
- Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself
against the risk of being read.
- Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
- Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill

The power of an air force is terrific
when there is nothing to oppose it.
- 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

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- Winston Churchill

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill

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