Winston Churchill Quotes, Life Quotes, Wise Quotes

How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.

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Science unfolded her treasures and her secrets to the desperate demands of men, and placed in their hands agencies and apparatus almost decisive in their character. Reflecting on the outcome of World War I, and an ominous future.

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It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance.

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Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

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This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

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Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

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I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

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The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

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To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

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The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

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Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

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We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front.

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Watch your character for your character is your destiny.

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The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

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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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There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

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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.

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They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

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