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Quotations by author » Winston Churchill
British Orator, Author and Prime Minister during World War II. 1874-1965
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It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.
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It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing
Belief
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of Socialism
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It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
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It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Conflict
It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly.
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It would not have been possible for any man in public life to get through what I have gone through without the devoted assistance of what we in England call one's better half.
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It wouldn’t make much sense to increase the penalty for bigamy. A bigamist has two mothers-in-law, and that’s punishment enough.
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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required
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It's quite simple, (public speaking) Say what you have to say and when you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending, sit down
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Jellicoe was the only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon.
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Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
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Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
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Learn to get used to it [bombing]. Eels get used to skinning.
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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning
Planning
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour
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Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days.
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Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
Logic
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thought
GiftsThinking
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