Winston Churchill Quotes

The reservist is twice the citizen.

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An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

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All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.

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There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

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Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

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The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

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The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

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I'm too busy. I have no time for worry.

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The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]

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Next time I go into the action - I shall command a hundred men - & possibly I may bring off some coup. Besides I shall have some other motive for taking chances than merely "love of adventure".

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One cannot leap a chasm in two jumps.

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I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

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He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

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Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.

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Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits

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

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...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?

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The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.

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