Quotes by Winston Churchill

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History will be kind to me because I intend to rewrite it.

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Democracy is the worst form of government, apart from the ones we've already tried.

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We live by what we get, but what we give makes us live.

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All people are as big as the things that make them angry.

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You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you remain generous and true, but at the same time persistent to the end, you cannot seriously harm the world or even cause great trouble.

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Sometimes you stumble upon the truth, but most of the time you pick yourself up and move on.

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Do you have enemies? Good. This means that at some point, you have already built something in your life.

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The price of greatness is responsibility.

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I can promise nothing but blood, effort, sweat and tears.

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As you progress, you create your own universe.

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One of the cruelest lessons in life is that occasionally you have to realize that fools can be right.

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Honesty is a good thing, but it is also very important to be right.

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There is something about a horse's exterior that is good for a person's interior.

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I like pigs. The dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs are treated as equals.

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No moment of life spent in the saddle is wasted time.

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There are a lot of lies in the world and the worst part is that half of them are true.

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There is no doubt that it is the family and the home through which the greatest virtues of human society are born, strengthened and nourished.

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The further back we look, the further forward we see.

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Capitalism's particular flaw is that it distributes goods unequally. The special virtue of socialism is that it shares equally in poverty.

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A fanatic is someone who is impossible to convince, but is also unwilling to change the subject.

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We will protect our island at all costs. We fight on the beaches, we fight on the airstrips, we fight in the fields and streets, we fight in the mountains; we will never give up.

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Never in the history of wars have so many people owed so much gratitude to so few.

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The conciliator feeds the crocodile in the hope that it will eat him last.

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I like things to go well. If they don't go, I like to make them go.

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A pessimist sees difficulty in every possibility; an optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty.

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I'm always ready to learn, but I'm not always happy to be taught.

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Golf is the sport where a very small ball is passed into an even smaller hole with a completely inappropriate tool.

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It is always wise to look ahead; but it is difficult to look farther than we can see.

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This is not the end. It's not even the beginning of the end. But maybe this is the end of the beginning.

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I am ready to meet the creator. Whether the Creator is prepared for this ordeal is another question.

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Attitude is a simple thing, but what you do makes a difference.

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Victory at any cost, victory in spite of all horrors, victory no matter how bitter the road. Because without victory there is no more life.

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Courage is rightly considered the number one human quality. It is what makes all the rest possible.

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If we open a debate between the past and the present, we risk losing the future.

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I have often had to swallow my words in my life and I have to admit that I have always found it to be a healthy diet.

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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to attract interest.

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If Hitler attacked hell, I would love to speak favorably of the devil.

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He who does not plan, plans to fail.

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For an uneducated person, reading collections of quotations is a very good thing.

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When I am abroad, I never criticize or attack the government of my country. When I get home, I'll make up for it.

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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a puzzle hidden inside a secret, (...) but maybe there is a key to it. The key is the Russian national interest.

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A society in which people cannot express their opinions has no future.

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If someone cannot defeat his opponent in war with his own means, he must learn a tactic similar to his opponent.

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Life is whole, so you have to endure both the good and the bad.

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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The realms of the future will be realms of the mind.

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If you're going through hell, just keep going!

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It takes courage not only to stand up and speak, but also to sit down and listen to the other person.

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It is meaningless to say that I will do my best. You have to do what the situation demands.

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Never trust a person who can't cite a single bad quality as an excuse.

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The enemy must always be misled, and broad public opinion can sometimes be misled for one's own benefit, but an ally must never be deceived.

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I don't blame you for the criticism, even if it deviates from reality at the moment for the sake of emphasis.

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The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield is a reminder of the honesty and sincerity of our actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, for so often our hopes are mocked by failure and our plans are overturned. But with this shield, even if fate plays tricks on us, we can always march honestly.

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When eagles are silent, parrots start chattering.

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The greatest things are always simple and can be expressed in a single word. Freedom. Truth. Honor. Duty. Mercy. Hope.

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Kites fly highest against the wind - not with it.

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There is nothing more exhilarating than being shot at but missing.

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Historiography slowly stumbles forward with its smoky, swaying torch along the paths of the past, trying to reconstruct its events, catch their echoes, and revive the heat of former passions in its pale light.

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Greatness and goodness rarely meet in one person.

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Don't waste the opportunity that a good little crisis gives you!