Winston Churchill
Quotations
All Listed Quotations by Winston Churchill:
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“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.” -Winston Churchill
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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.” -Winston Churchill
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“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.” -Winston Churchill
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“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.” -Winston Churchill
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“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.” -Winston Churchill
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“It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.” -Winston Churchill
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“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Winston Churchill
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“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
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“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.” -Winston Churchill
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“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.” -Winston Churchill
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“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.” -Winston Churchill
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“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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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” -Winston Churchill
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” -Winston Churchill
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” -Winston Churchill
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“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” -Winston Churchill
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.” -Winston Churchill
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“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” -Winston Churchill
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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.” -Winston Churchill
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“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.” -Winston Churchill
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“Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.” -Winston Churchill
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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.” -Winston Churchill
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“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.” -Winston Churchill
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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.” -Winston Churchill
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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.” -Winston Churchill
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“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.” -Winston Churchill
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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” -Winston Churchill
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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.” -Winston Churchill
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“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.” -Winston Churchill
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“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.” -Winston Churchill
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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.” -Winston Churchill
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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.” -Winston Churchill
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“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston Churchill
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“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.” -Winston Churchill
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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.” -Winston Churchill
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” -Winston Churchill
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“To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.” -Winston Churchill
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“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.” -Winston Churchill
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“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.” -Winston Churchill
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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” -Winston Churchill
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“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.” -Winston Churchill
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“We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.” -Winston Churchill
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