Winston Churchill Quotes

• 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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  You’ve got enemies? Good. That means you actually stood up for something in your life.

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

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

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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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• I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

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• To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

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• The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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• The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

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• He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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• The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

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• If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

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• 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 never happened.

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

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

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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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• When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

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  We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

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• We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

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• Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the

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Winston Churchill (244)

Birth:	30th November, 1874
Death:	24th January, 1965
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Artist, Historian, Journalist, Politician, Soldier, Statesman, Writer

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