Quotes by Churchill, Winston

"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. "

Churchill, Winston on army and navy
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"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

Churchill, Winston on art
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"Logic is a poor guide compared with custom."

Churchill, Winston on logic
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"The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind."

Churchill, Winston on mind
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"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."

Churchill, Winston on mistakes
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"He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about."

Churchill, Winston on modesty
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"There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided."

Churchill, Winston on nationalities and nationalism
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"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]"

Churchill, Winston on nations
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"The maxim of the British people is Business as usual."

Churchill, Winston on nations
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"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."

Churchill, Winston on nuclear age
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"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

Churchill, Winston on opinions
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"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

Churchill, Winston on opportunity
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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"These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never, never -- in nothing great or small, large or petty. Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"Never, never, never, never give up."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves."

Churchill, Winston on perseverance
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"I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring."

Churchill, Winston on planning
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"In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Politicians have the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterward to explain why it didn't happen."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill."

Churchill, Winston on attitude
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"Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it."

Churchill, Winston on president   

"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

Churchill, Winston on quotations
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"Responsibility is the price of greatness."

Churchill, Winston on responsibility
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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

Churchill, Winston on risk
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"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."

Churchill, Winston on risk
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"I am easily satisfied with the very best."

Churchill, Winston on action
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"The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age."

Churchill, Winston on science
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"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed."

Churchill, Winston on security
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"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old."

Churchill, Winston on service   

"When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber."

Churchill, Winston on silence
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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."

Churchill, Winston on simplicity
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"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."

Churchill, Winston on simplicity
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"It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude."

Churchill, Winston on slavery   

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Churchill, Winston on solitude
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