Winston Churchill Quotes

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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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We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

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

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

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

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

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He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

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If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

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English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

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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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If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground.

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It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.

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The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.

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Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

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

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It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

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Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people... await the hour of liberation... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

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Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918....

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A balloon goes up quite easily for a certain distance, but after a certain distance it refuses to go up any further, because the air is too rarefied to float it and sustain it. And, therefore, I would say, let us examine the concrete facts.

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Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

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I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.

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I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

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I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony.

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My experience — and it is somewhat considerable — is that in these matters when the need is clearly explained by military and political authorities, science is always able to provide something. "Seek and ye shall find" has been borne out.

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

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