Winston Churchill Quotes

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When I look round to see how we can win the war I see that there is only one sure path... and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland. We must be able to overwhelm them by this means, without which I do not see a way through.

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We are all worms. But I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

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A 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 wife's bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

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I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.

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There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them!

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When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

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There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

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This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

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Foster Dulles is the only case I know of a bull who carries his china shop with him.

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After lunch with composer Irving Berlin who he had confused with political theorist Isaiah Berlin:
Berlin's just like most bureaucrats. Wonderful on paper but disappointing when you meet them face to face.

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The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience.

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This is the sort of English up with which I will not put.

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Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

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The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.

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It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.

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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

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It may be that vengeance is sweet, and that the gods forbade vengeance to men because they reserved for themselves so delicious and intoxicating a drink. But no one should drain the cup to the bottom. The dregs are often filthy-tasting.

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We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

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Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

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The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.

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