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Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better. - Winston Churchill

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. - Winston Churchill

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. - Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. - Winston Churchill

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. - Winston Churchill

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. - Winston Churchill

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. - Winston Churchill

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. - Winston Churchill

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. - Winston Churchill

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. - Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect. - Winston Churchill

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice. - Winston Churchill

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. - Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. - Winston Churchill

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. - Winston Churchill

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. - Winston Churchill

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. - Winston Churchill

If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things. - Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. - Winston Churchill

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. - Winston Churchill

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. - Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. - Winston Churchill

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. - Winston Churchill

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. - Winston Churchill

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. - Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. - Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. - Winston Churchill

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. - Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. - Winston Churchill

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. - Winston Churchill

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. - Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. - Winston Churchill

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another. - Winston Churchill

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. - Winston Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. - Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion. - Winston Churchill

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. - Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. - Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. - Winston Churchill

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. - Winston Churchill

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. - Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. - Winston Churchill

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. - Winston Churchill

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. - Winston Churchill

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. - Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. - Winston Churchill

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words. - Winston Churchill

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. - Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. - Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. - Winston Churchill

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. - Winston Churchill

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. - Winston Churchill

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. - Winston Churchill

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. - Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. - Winston Churchill

The first quality that is needed is audacity. - Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can. - Winston Churchill

I like a man who grins when he fights. - Winston Churchill

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. - Winston Churchill

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. - Winston Churchill

A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure. - Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. - Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. - Winston Churchill

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. - Winston Churchill

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. - Winston Churchill

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. - Winston Churchill

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. - Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. - Winston Churchill

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel. - Winston Churchill

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. - Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. - Winston Churchill

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget? - Winston Churchill

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. - Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. - Winston Churchill

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. - Winston Churchill

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. - Winston Churchill

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. - Winston Churchill

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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. - Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! - Winston Churchill

A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. - Winston Churchill

Great and good are seldom the same man. - Winston Churchill

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. - Winston Churchill

There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. - Winston Churchill

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There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. - Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Winston Churchill

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Winston Churchill

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. - Winston Churchill

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. - Winston Churchill

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent. - Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. - Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. - Winston Churchill

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. - Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. - Winston Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. - Winston Churchill

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. - Winston Churchill

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