Winston Churchill Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Safety Quotes

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

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Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

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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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Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

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The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.

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It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

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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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I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

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The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.

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Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

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It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing.

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Only changes in mindsets can extend the frontiers of the possible.

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It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

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The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

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Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

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I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

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The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'

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I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

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Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

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