Winston Churchill Quotes

• These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Greatest, Dark

• Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Times, Dangerous

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Try, Danger

• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Opportunity, Risk

  Tags in Hope, Security, Difficulties

• I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

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  Tags in Developed, Eating

• We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

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  Tags in Bare, Curse

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

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Open, Lost

• 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

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  Tags in Terrible, Lot

• 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

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Attention, Criticism

• No crime is so great as daring to excel.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Excel, Crime

• Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.

  Winston Churchill

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  Tags in Game, Lose

• For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Accept, Military

• Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Failure

  Tags in Enthusiasm, Courage

• A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Morality, Consequences

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

  Winston Churchill

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  Tags in Pet

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

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ahead, Look

• It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ahead, Look

• The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forward, Look

• Jaw jaw is better than war war.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in War, Communication

• Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

  Winston Churchill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Champagne, Knowing

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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