Winston Churchill quotes - page 10

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. (Winston Churchill)
They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds. View quote
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry. View quote
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I have left the obvious, essential fact till this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies. View quote
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The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell. View quote
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Hence, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks. View quote
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I hate nobody except Hitler - and that is professional. View quote
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I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.' View quote
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, 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'. View quote
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[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.”. View quote
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I am too busy. I have not time for worry. (Winston Churchill)
Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable? View quote
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The very first thing the President did was to show me the new Presidential Seal, which he had just redesigned. He explained, 'The seal has to go everywhere the President goes. It must be displayed upon the lectern when he speaks. The eagle used to face the arrows but I have re-designed it so that it now faces the olive branches ... what do you think?' I said, 'Mr. President, with the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle's neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand. View quote
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We must recognise that we have a great treasure to guard; that the inheritance in our possession represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause? View quote
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We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. View quote
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss. View quote
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Thus ended the great American Civil War, which upon the whole must be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record. View quote
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Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities. View quote
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The power of the executive to cast a man into prison, ... without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. View quote
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Writing a book is an adventure it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant. View quote
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Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest. (Winston Churchill)
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. View quote
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Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning. View quote
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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain. View quote
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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. View quote
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