Winston Churchill quotes
37 quotes by Winston Churchill. Topics: Conservative, Courage, Famous Quotes, Freedom, History, Humorous, Inspirational, Politics, Social Justice, Success, Truth, War, Wisdom.
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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
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“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
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“Success is not final; failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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“History is written by the victors.”
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“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.”
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“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
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“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
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“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
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“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
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“I never worry about action, but only inaction.”
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“Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.”
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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
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“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.”
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“I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.”
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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”
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“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe.”
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“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
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“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
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“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
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“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
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“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
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“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.”
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“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
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“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
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“Never, never, never give up.”
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“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
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“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”
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“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”
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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
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“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”