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Famous Winston Churchill Quotes
“They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.”
“I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.”
“Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.”
“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.”
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
“If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”
“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.”
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”