Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)

Quotations
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
Sir Winston Churchill

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Sir Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

Sir Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Churchill

roadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
Sir Winston Churchill

!very day you may make progress. !very step may be fruitful. "et there will stretch out before you an ever#lengthening, ever# ascending, ever#improving path. "ou know you will never get to the end of the journey. ut this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Sir Winston Churchill

$rom now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Sir Winston Churchill

%e has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Sir Winston Churchill

%istory will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

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%owever beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Sir Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Sir Winston Churchill

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Sir Winston Churchill

I like pigs. &ogs look up to us. 'ats look down on us. (igs treat us as e)uals.
Sir Winston Churchill

If we open a )uarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. *he chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Sir Winston Churchill

+ever, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. *he statesman who yields to war fever must reali,e that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Sir Winston Churchill

-ne ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. ut if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Sir Winston Churchill

(ersonally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill

.uccess is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

*he inherent vice of capitalism is the une)ual sharing of blessings/ the inherent virtue of socialism is the e)ual sharing of miseries.
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*he price of greatness is responsibility.

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*he reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Sir Winston Churchill

*here are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Sir Winston Churchill

*o build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. *o destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Sir Winston Churchill

0e make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.