Winston Churchill Quotes

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In the course of a few bewildering years we have found ourselves the master or indeed the servants of gigantic powers which confront us with problems never known before.

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It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.

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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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Just to paint is great fun... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

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I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

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Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry... - and said, "Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people."

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In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.

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Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

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The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

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Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.

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The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

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I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment.

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"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil, tears and sweat," to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it."

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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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You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

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The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

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In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

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A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.

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Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

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It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

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The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

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

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It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

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Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty...

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Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told.

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Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.

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I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

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Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

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We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers. We want some scientists, but we must keep them in their proper place.

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They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

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