Winston Churchill Quotes

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What can you do with a man who looks like a female llama surprised when bathing?
Of Charles de Gaulle

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Unteachable from infancy to tomb - There is the first and main characteristic of mankind.

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My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

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At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

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A curious sport whose object is to put a very small ball into a very small hole with implements ill-designed for the purpose.

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It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

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Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

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Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

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You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war.

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From now on I shall have to take care not to lose wars.
After the Nuremberg war trials

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As far as I can see you have used every cliché except 'God is Love' and 'Please adjust your dress before leaving.'
Churchill had returned a long-winded memorandum to Anthony Eden with this note

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The United States always does the right thing, after exploring every other possible course of action.

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I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

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There 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.

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Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

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I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

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He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors, and airmen, who side by side with ours are carrying on their task to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

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The contrast between the morals at the centre of power and those practiced by wide communities in many subject lands presented problems of ever growing unrest.

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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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[Magna Carta provided] a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

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Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.

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I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth.

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We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

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Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

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Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side, I were not to convey the true impression, that this great nation is getting into its war stride.

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