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Those that fail to learn from history
by Winston Churchill

Those that fail to learn from history
are doomed to repeat it.
- Winston Churchill

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Quotes by 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."

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- 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

Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
- Winston Churchill

A joke is a very serious thing.
- Winston Churchill

Ending a sentence with a preposition is
something up with which I will not put.
- Winston Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- 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

I like a man who grins when he fights.
- Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill

I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- 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

Short words are best
and the old words, when short, are best of all.
- Winston Churchill

In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- 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

Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill

It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- 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

We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- 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

Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill

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

We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill

To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill

We shape our dwellings, and afterwards
our dwellings shape us.
- Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill

It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- 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

When you have to kill a man,
it costs nothing to be polite.
- Winston Churchill

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities...
because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Winston Churchill

We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
- Winston Churchill

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

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary.
It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body.
It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
- Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.
- Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation
of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill

The length of this document defends it well
against the risk of its being read.
- Winston Churchill

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

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Winston Churchill

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

Without tradition, art is a
flock of sheep without a shepherd.
Without innovation, it is a corpse.
- 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

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

I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill

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