Winston Churchill Quotes

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Winston Churchill

Profession : Statesman

Birth : November 30, 1874

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.

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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

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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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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

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History is written by the victors.

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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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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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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

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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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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.

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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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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

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