Winston Churchill Quotes, Writing Quotes, Historical Quotes

To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.

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We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

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The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

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There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

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Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

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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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Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved

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I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

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The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

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Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart. Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

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A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

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I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form.

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With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

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Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

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I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

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My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings.

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We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

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When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it.

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

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