Winston Churchill Quotes

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Winston Churchill

Profession : Statesman

Birth : November 30, 1874

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston Churchill

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

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We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

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Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

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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.

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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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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.

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Winston Churchill

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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