A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston ChurchillLeave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.
Winston ChurchillHere is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it
Winston ChurchillHere life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.
Winston ChurchillHasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.
Winston ChurchillI did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head.
Winston ChurchillThere is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.
Winston ChurchillIt is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Winston ChurchillThe poodle [Rufus] ate in the dining room with the rest of the [Churchill] family. A cloth was laid for him on the Persian carpet beside the head of the household, and no one else ate until the butler had served Rufus's meal.
Winston ChurchillEveryone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.
Winston ChurchillI had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.
Winston ChurchillHe has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
Winston ChurchillI cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston ChurchillThe Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
Winston ChurchillThe person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants.
Winston ChurchillYou ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory 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 ChurchillAll the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillI have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.
Winston ChurchillAnyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!
Winston ChurchillDo you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.
Winston ChurchillAn efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.
Winston ChurchillI shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself.
Winston ChurchillThe substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
Winston ChurchillI do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.
Winston ChurchillIf you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.
Winston ChurchillAt one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.
Winston ChurchillThus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.
Winston ChurchillIt was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.
Winston ChurchillWhen I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!
Winston ChurchillThe United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.
Winston ChurchillArm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.
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