Winston Churchill Quotes

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

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• All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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• My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

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

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• What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

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• 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.

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• Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• There is no such thing as a good tax.

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• There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.

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• The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

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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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