Winston Churchill Quotes

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"Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it."

Winston Churchill

"The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate."

Winston Churchill Topics: America War

"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."

Winston Churchill Topics: Ability English Statesman

"Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation."

Winston Churchill

"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."

Winston Churchill Topics: English Statesman Lies And Lying

"Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."

Winston Churchill

"They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds."

Winston Churchill Topics: Churchill

"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

Winston Churchill Topics: English Statesman

"Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft."

Winston Churchill Topics: English Statesman History

"We must build a kind of United States of Europe."

Winston Churchill

"Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested"

Winston Churchill

"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."

Winston Churchill Topics: Brain

"We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic."

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"Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."

Winston Churchill Topics: Writers And Writing

"Some people's idea of [free speech] is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage."

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"When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened"

Winston Churchill Topics: Death

"Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days."

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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

Winston Churchill Topics: English Statesman

"We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges"

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"The Balkans produce more history than they can consume"

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"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."

Winston Churchill Topics: British Politician Courage English Statesman inspirational

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