Winston Churchill quotes - page 6

We must build a kind of United States of Europe. (Winston Churchill)
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. View quote
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. View quote
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It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. View quote
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Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. View quote
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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. View quote
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Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into 3 classes those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death. View quote
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Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime Ministers have never yet been invested. View quote
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Russian may seem narrow-minded, impudent, or even stupid people, but can only pray for those who are against them. View quote
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It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it. View quote
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So they told me how Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right. (Winston Churchill)
MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. View quote
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I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire. View quote
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So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful for impotence. View quote
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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. View quote
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Democracy is the worst system devised by the wit of man, except for all the others. View quote
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The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put. View quote
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A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. View quote
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When I warned the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their prime minister and his divided cabinet, 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some chicken some neck. View quote
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In War Resolution. In Defeat Defiance. In Victory Magnanimity. In Peace Goodwill. View quote
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Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture. (Winston Churchill)
Great and good are seldom the same man. View quote
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I submit respectfully to the House as a general principle that our responsibility in this matter is directly proportionate to our power. Where there is great power there is great responsibility, where there is less power there is less responsibility, and where there is no power there can, I think, be no responsibility. View quote
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. View quote
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. View quote
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