Winston Churchill quotes - page 29

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. (Winston Churchill)
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right. View quote
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You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist. View quote
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The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak. View quote
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Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches. View quote
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Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers. View quote
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Everyone threw the blame on me. I have noticed that they nearly always do. I suppose it is because they think I shall be able to bear it best. View quote
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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground. View quote
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Everybody has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses. View quote
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The English never draw a line without blurring it. View quote
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I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le. (Winston Churchill)
Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production. View quote
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It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly. View quote
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The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed. View quote
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Give us the tools and we will finish the job. View quote
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The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. View quote
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There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success. View quote
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History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this The only guide to a man is his conscience the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations but with this shield, however the fate may play, we march always in the ranks of honor. View quote
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We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved. View quote
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It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation. View quote
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Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed. (Winston Churchill)
Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts. View quote
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My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto. View quote
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There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice. View quote
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We must have a better word than 'prefabricated'. Why not 'ready-made' View quote
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