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Famous Winston Churchill Quotes
“The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.”
“I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.”
“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”
“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”
“Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.”
“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”
“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.”
“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”
“The first quality that is needed is audacity.”
“Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.”
“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”
“When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
“Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.”
“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”
“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”
“Eating words has never given me indigestion.”
“India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.”
“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.”
“If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.”
“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”
“Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.”
“Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.”
“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.”