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Famous Winston Churchill Quotes
“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”
“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”
“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
“Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.”
“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.”
“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.”
“Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.”
“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.”
“Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.”
“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”
“I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
“When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.”
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”
“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
“It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.”
“He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
“'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.”
“The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.”