Winston Churchill Quotes

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  Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Failure, Success

• We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

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  Topics in Suffering

  Tags in Itself

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

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  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Wiser
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  Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil

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  Topics in Goal, Inspirational

• Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Some People, Healthy
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  The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Democracy

  Tags in Best, Against

• Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Business, Politics

  Tags in Earnest

• A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

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  Topics in Belief

  Tags in Extremism

• The first quality that is needed is audacity.

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  Tags in Needed, Quality

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

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  Tags in Information, Evaluation

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

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  Topics in Wise

  Tags in Winning, Almost

• Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

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  Tags in Indeed, Lot

• Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

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  Tags in Russia, Enigma

• From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

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  Tags in Curtain, Continent

• History is written by the victors.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in History

  Tags in Victors, Written

• Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

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  Tags in Prepared, Preferred

• Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

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  Tags in Europe, Bore

• Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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  Tags in Esteemed, Guarantees

• I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Prepared, Meet

• We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

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  Tags in Architecture

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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