Winston Churchill Quotes, Simple Quotes

My tastes are simple. I like only the very best.

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Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

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There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

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Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.

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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.

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The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

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A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

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A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.

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I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes.

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History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

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Maybe" when it seems the entire world is shouting "no!

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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.

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There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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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.

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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose

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Wars are not won by evacuations.

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With integrity, nothing else counts. Without integrity, nothing else counts.

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How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

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A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

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