Winston Churchill quotes - page 26

But we have our own dream and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. (Winston Churchill)
They are afraid of words and thoughts; words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home - all the more powerful because forbidden - terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind. View quote
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The first lesson that you must learn is that, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic. View quote
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The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings. View quote
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The mechanical danger must be overcome by a mechanical remedy. View quote
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How many wars have been precipitated by firebrands! How many misunderstandings which led to wars could have been removed by temporizing! How often have countries fought cruel wars and then after a few years found themselves not only friends but allies! View quote
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I think we shall have to take the Chinese in hand and regulate them. View quote
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We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun. View quote
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All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness. View quote
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I believe in the ultimate partition of China - I mean ultimate. I hope we shall not have to do it in our day. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph. View quote
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It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes. (Winston Churchill)
We live in a country where the people own the Government and not in a country where the Government owns the people. View quote
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This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time. View quote
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We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us. View quote
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There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse. View quote
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I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.""Cannot possibly attend first night; will attend second, if there is one." View quote
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Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! View quote
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My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... View quote
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You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. View quote
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. View quote
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You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me. (Winston Churchill)
The heaviest cross I have to bear is the Cross of Lorraine. View quote
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The fascists of the future will be called anti-fascists. View quote
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Gentlemen, We Have Run Out Of Money; Now We Have to Think. View quote
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People often forget that in 1940 there was no guarantee that we were going to win. View quote
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