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Winston Churchill Quotes

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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Famous Winston Churchill Quotes

“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.”

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

“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.”

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

“Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time.”

“Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.”

“It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.”