I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.
Winston ChurchillYou will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
Winston ChurchillWorking hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.
Winston ChurchillGood night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.
Winston ChurchillSocialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.
Winston ChurchillThe 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 ChurchillI have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.
Winston ChurchillNow at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.
Winston ChurchillWe must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?
Winston ChurchillThey say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.
Winston ChurchillIt is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.
Winston ChurchillIf I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.
Winston ChurchillThe acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.
Winston ChurchillWe shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old.
Winston ChurchillMy most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston ChurchillIt is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.
Winston ChurchillEnglish literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.
Winston ChurchillBaldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.
Winston ChurchillNothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
Winston ChurchillIn 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 ChurchillThe first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.
Winston ChurchillA baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wifeโs bed is a cause of the gravest concern.
Winston ChurchillWe need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Winston ChurchillI have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Winston ChurchillYou may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.
Winston ChurchillNo socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.
Winston ChurchillThe tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.
Winston ChurchillNo matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.
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