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“It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter”

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Book:The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill

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The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill

This book offers a compilation of stories, sayings, and impressions that capture the essence of Sir Winston Churchill's personality, leadership, and impact on history. more

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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill, a former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, was a statesman, historian, writer, and orator. He led the British people in resisting Nazi Germany during World War II and became a national hero. Churchill is renowned for his unique oratory style and steadfast political stance. more

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“Opening amenities are often opening inanities.”

Opening Speakers Amenities

Author:Winston Churchill

“When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.”

Men World Soul Moving Spirit Causes Wealth Animal Comfort Response Drawing Pursuit Impulse Awe Casting Pursuit Of Happiness Irresistible Stirring

Book:The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941

Source: The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941

“The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.”

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Book:Their Finest Hour

Source: Their Finest Hour

“Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.”

Men Science Conditions Immense Comprehension

Author:Winston Churchill

“The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within.”

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Book:Memoral Addresses and Tributes

Source: Memoral Addresses and Tributes

“The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.”

Heaven Nations United Hell United Nations

Author:Winston Churchill

“Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept.”

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Book:Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War

Source: Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War

“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.”

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Book:Churchill: The Power of Words

Source: Churchill: The Power of Words

“I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.”

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Author:Winston Churchill

“We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.”