Winston Churchill Quotes

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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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The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.

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There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

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Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

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One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

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How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.

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The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

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Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

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For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

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When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my
first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the
subject.

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We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

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It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time.

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It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

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Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

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Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands.

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All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

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I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

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Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

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If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

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Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

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It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

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Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

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The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

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I like the martial and commanding air with which the right honorable Gentleman treats facts. He stands no nonsense from them.

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We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

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In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

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Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.

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There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying.

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The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.

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In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

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