Winston Churchill Quotes

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It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

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You are a small exclamation mark at the end of a very long and insignificant sentence in the book of history.

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When the mouse is away the cats might play.
About whether Attlee would go to America about the financial crisis

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The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

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By noon it was clear that the Socialists would have a majority. At luncheon my wife said to me, 'It may well be a blessing in disguise.' I replied, 'At the moment it seems quite effectively disguised.'

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We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

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We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward cross the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

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Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days —the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race.

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The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilization.

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One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

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We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.

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We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.

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You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

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The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.

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The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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[Clement Attlee is] a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about.

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The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains.

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Bearing ourselves humbly before God … we await undismayed the impending assault … be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy – we shall ask for none.

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She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance.

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"872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain, ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.

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In war-time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

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Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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It may also be said that rational, industrious, useful human beings are divided into two classes: first, those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and secondly, those whose work and pleasure are one.

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