Winston Churchill Quotes, War Quotes, Patriotic Quotes

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.

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...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

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The definition of courage is going from defeat to defeat with enthusiasm.

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Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

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I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

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Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

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The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

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I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

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Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy.

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I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful.

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If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

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God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

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I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

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Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.

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

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If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

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The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.

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The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

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