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Quotes of Winston Churchill 1911-1968 British Journalist
Winston Churchill Photo and Biography
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. (dictators and dictat)
Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice. (communism and social)
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. (democracy)
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. (history and historia)
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. (government)
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us. (home)
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. (heroes and heroism)
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire. (god)
It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. (honesty)
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. (genius)
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. (grammar)
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, 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. (heroes and heroism)
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. (mistakes)
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. (golf)
No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. (expression)
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter (fear)
Great and good are seldom the same man. (greatness)
The price of greatness is responsibility. (greatness)
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it. (expression)
Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. (logic)
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. (humankind)
The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. (leaders and leadersh)
He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about. (modesty)
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. (life and living)
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism. (ideals and idealism)
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Churchill, Winston | [2] | [3] | [4] | [5]
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