These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston ChurchillI am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.
Winston ChurchillThe women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.
Winston Churchill[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.
Winston ChurchillI am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.
Winston ChurchillPeople who are not prepared to do unpopular things and defy the clamor of the multitude are not fit to be ministers in time of difficulty.
Winston ChurchillI look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
Winston ChurchillIn Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.
Winston ChurchillEthics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.
Winston ChurchillTo be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.
Winston ChurchillI devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.
Winston ChurchillWithout tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Winston ChurchillAdvertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.
Winston ChurchillYoung people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.
Winston ChurchillUnless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.
Winston ChurchillFancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!
Winston ChurchillI am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.
Winston ChurchillWe used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.
Winston ChurchillThere are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.
Winston ChurchillThe people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.
Winston ChurchillI have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
Winston ChurchillI am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.
Winston ChurchillTime passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?
Winston ChurchillVictory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston ChurchillThere is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews.
Winston ChurchillYou must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.
Winston ChurchillIt may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]
Winston ChurchillFor the first 25 years of my life, I wanted freedom. For the next 25 years, I wanted order. For the next 25 years, I realized that order is freedom.
Winston ChurchillDon't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.
Winston ChurchillThe one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.
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