Winston Churchill Quotes

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Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

Winston Churchill
The people of London with one voice would say to Hitler: 'You have committed every crime under the sun…We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst—and we will do our best.'

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These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.

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How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries. Besides the fanatical frenzy which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy.

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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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I have no doubt that the Romans planned the time-table of their days far better than we do. They rose before the sun at all seasons. Except in wartime we never see the dawn. Sometimes we see sunset. The message of sunset is sadness; the message of dawn is hope. The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

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It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

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A labour contract into which men enter voluntarily for a limited and for a brief period, under which they are paid wages which they consider adequate…may not be a healthy or proper contract, but it cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

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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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This is something you ought to know: each time we have to choose between Europe and the open sea, we shall always choose the open sea.
To Charles de Gaulle

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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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Of a meeting with Lloyd George:
Within five minutes the old relationship between us was completely re-established. The relationship between Master and Servant. And I was the Servant.

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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

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I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

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The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war.

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The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.

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A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

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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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He [Stanley Baldwin] occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

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The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

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I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

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I think a curse should rest on me — because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment — and yet — I can't help it — I enjoy every second of it.

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