Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Winston ChurchillHence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
Winston ChurchillNever, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Winston ChurchillThe statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Winston ChurchillIt cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
Winston ChurchillFor 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 ChurchillHow I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.
Winston ChurchillWhen told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!
Winston ChurchillWhen we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
Winston ChurchillDon't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.
Winston ChurchillFrom the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.
Winston ChurchillThe English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.
Winston ChurchillVictory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.
Winston ChurchillFailure should never go to heart and success should never go to head, both makes a person to fall in life.
Winston ChurchillLike a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."
Winston ChurchillIt has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.
Winston ChurchillThe POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
Winston ChurchillI am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.
Winston ChurchillThe belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.
Winston ChurchillI trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'
Winston ChurchillWho's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire.
Winston ChurchillEverybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.
Winston ChurchillWhen I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.
Winston ChurchillThe problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston ChurchillAmericans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.
Winston ChurchillIn time of war, soldiers, however sensible, care a great deal more on some occasions about slaking their thirst than about the danger of enteric fever. Better known as typhoid, the disease is often spread by drinking contaminated water.
Winston ChurchillAll dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal
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