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Winston Churchill [1874-1965] English

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Statesman, Former British Prime Minister

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS, RA was a British statesman who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.	Courage, Failure, Success	6
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.	Attitude	102
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.	Failure, Success	103
Never, never, never give up.	Motivational	104
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.	Change	105
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.	Brainy, Life	106
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.	Best, Government	107
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.	Failure	108
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.	Courage	109
If you're going through hell, keep going.	Motivational	110
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.	Funny, Morning	111
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.	War	112
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.	Intelligence, Strength	113
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.	Learning	114
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.		115
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.	Architecture	116
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.	Freedom, Great, Hope	117
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.	Christmas	118
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.		119
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.	Good, Life	120
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.	History	121
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.	Best, Success	122
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.	Change	123
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.	Art	124
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.	Politics, Respect	125
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.	Strength, Time	126
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!		201
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.	Patriotism	202
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.		203
The price of greatness is responsibility.	Great	204
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.		205
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.	Truth	206
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.		207
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.	Pet	208
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.		209
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.		210
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.	Future	211
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.		212
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.		213
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.	Marriage	214
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.	Time	215
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.	Politics, War	216
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.		217
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.	Great	218
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.		219
I never worry about action, but only inaction.		220
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.	War	221
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.		222
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.	Respect	223
It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.	Good, Politics	224
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.		225
We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.		226
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.		301
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.	Nature	302
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.		303
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.	Time, Truth	304
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.	Chance, Truth	305
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.		306
In 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.	Diet	307
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.	Communication	308
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.	Truth, War	309
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.		310
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.		311
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.		312
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.	War	313
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.	History	314
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.	Saint Patrick's Day	315
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.	Communication, Time	316
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.		317
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.	Best	318
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.	Strength	319
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.	Future	320
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.	Time	321
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.	Death, Great	322
I am easily satisfied with the very best.	Best	323
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.	Government, Home, Time	324
No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.	Education	325
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.		326
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.	Best	401
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.		402
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.	Power	403
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.		404
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.	Best, War, Work	405
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.		406
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.	History	407
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.		408
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.		409
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.		410
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.		411
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.		412
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.		413
Eating words has never given me indigestion.		414
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.		415
In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.		416
Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.		417
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.	Government	418
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.	Business	419
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.	Patriotism	420
Great and good are seldom the same man.	Great	421
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.		422
What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?		423
Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.		424
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.	History	425
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.		426
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.		501
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.		502
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.		503
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.		504
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.		505
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.		506
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.	Politics, War	507
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.		508
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.	Smile, War	509
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.		510
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.		511
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.		512
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.	Business, Politics	513
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.		514
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.	Future	515
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.	Politics	516
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.		517
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.		518
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.		519
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.	Strength	520
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.	Power	521
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.		522
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.		523
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.		524
No crime is so great as daring to excel.		525
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.		526
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.	Respect	601
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.		602
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.		603
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.		604
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.		605
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.	War	606
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.		607
History is written by the victors.	History	608
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.	Politics	609
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.	Business	610
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.		611
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.		612
The 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.	Fear	613
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.	Courage	614
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.		615
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.		616
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.	Strength	617
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.	Truth	618
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.	Politics, War	619
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.		620
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.		621
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.		622
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.		623
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.		624
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.	Truth	625
A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.	Society	626
For 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.		701
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.		702
I like a man who grins when he fights.		703
The first quality that is needed is audacity.		704
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.		705
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.	Peace	706
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.		707
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.	Politics	708
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.		709
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.		710
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.		711

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