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You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
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We occasionally stumble over the truth
but most of us pick ourselves up and
hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible,
malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it,
but in the end; there it is.
- Winston Churchill
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To improve is to change;
to be perfect is to change often.
- Winston Churchill
If we open a quarrel between past and present,
we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Winston Churchill
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered
with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
- Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I am an optimist.
It does not seem too much use being anything else.
- Winston Churchill
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose...
only then will you learn the game.
- Winston Churchill
It is no use saying, "We are doing our best."
You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
- Winston Churchill
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
- Winston Churchill
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence -
is the key to unlocking our potential.
- Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal.
It is the courage to continue that counts.
- Winston Churchill
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
Never hold discussions with the monkey
when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Winston Churchill
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
This is no time for ease and comfort.
It is time to dare and endure.
- Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure
without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
(also quoted as: "Courage is going from failure to failure
without losing enthusiasm."
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Winston Churchill
Never give in - never, never, never, never.
- Winston Churchill
If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Never, never, never give up.
- Winston Churchill
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself
the means of inspiration and survival.
- Winston Churchill
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
- Winston Churchill
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- Winston Churchill
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right,
than to be responsible and wrong.
- Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Winston Churchill
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
- Winston Churchill
It is a fine thing to be honest,
but it is also very important to be right.
- Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
You have only to persevere to save yourselves.
- Winston Churchill
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.
- Winston Churchill
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
- Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable
than those of defeat,
but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak;
courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
- Winston Churchill
There are two things that are more difficult
than making an after-dinner speech:
climbing a wall which is leaning toward you
and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
- Winston Churchill
Personally, I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught.
- Winston Churchill
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
- Winston Churchill
We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better
by all parties to leave the past to history,
especially as I propose to write that history myself.
- Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
In war as in life, it is often necessary
when some cherished scheme has failed,
to take up the best alternative open,
and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
- Winston Churchill
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
He has all of the virtues I dislike,
and none of the vices I admire.
- Winston Churchill
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Winston Churchill
A lie travels round the world while
truth is putting her boots on.
- French Proverb
(also attributed to Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and others)
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing -
after they've tried everything else.
- Winston Churchill
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace
and those who could make a good peace
would never have won the war.
- Winston Churchill
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind
and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror,
victory however long and hard the road may be;
for without victory, there is no survival.
- Winston Churchill
We are masters of the unsaid words,
but slaves of those we let slip out.
- 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
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to
criticize or attack the government of my own country.
I make up for lost time when I come home.
- Winston Churchill
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
- Winston Churchill
If Hitler invaded hell
I would make at least a favorable reference
to the devil in the House of Commons.
- Winston Churchill
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
- Winston Churchill
This report, by its very length, defends itself
against the risk of being read.
- Winston Churchill
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