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"106 Winston Churchill Quotes & Sayings

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Born: November 30, 1874. Died: January 24, 1965 | Politician | Statesman | Writer |

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Employ Improving Writings Labored
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“The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.”

History World Nations Strong
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“It is no use saying ‘we are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”

Best Saying Necessary Doing
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“We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.”

Shape Dwelling Afterwards Our
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“It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

Democracy Government Other Worst
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“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”
Destiny Mistake Look Ahead
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“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.”

Rule Criticize Abroad Attack
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“I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”

Nothing Offer Blood Sweat
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“Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”

Dictator Tigers Dare Dismount
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“Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.”

Time Writing Improve Employ
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Accept People Inspire Dwell
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“Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.”
Measure Human Life Destroy
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“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

Human Conflict Never Owe
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“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last.”

Hope Last Appease Feeds
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

Solitary Grow Strong They
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“Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending – sit down.”

First What Sentence With
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“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: “This was their finest hour.”

Bear Duty British Empire
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The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
Best Know Skill Inevitable
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“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”

War Blunder Main Catalogue
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“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.”

War Often Life Fail
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“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”

War Success Deserve One
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“If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.”

Grace Best Possible Submit
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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.”

Love Great Freedom Justice
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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
Curse Mortal Cruel Short
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“We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.”

Logic Innovation Guide Beware
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

Danger Prompt Never Away
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!”

Danger Reduce Double Run
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“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival. ”

Victory Hard Cost Terror
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“One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce t

Never Danger Prompt Flinch
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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

Success Failure Fatal Courage
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.

Victory Terror Hard Survival
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival
Heart Suffer Inspiration Survive
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“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”

Victory Problem Defeat Less
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“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.”

Brilliant Achievement Wife Marry
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“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

Maker Prepared Ordeal Meet
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“The English never draw a line without blurring it.”

English Draw Line Blur
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“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”
Good Uneducated Book Man
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“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

Terrible World True Lies
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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.”

Build Destroy Task Years
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“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
Look Forward Likely Farther
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“You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

Enemy Good Something Life
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“In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.”

Finance Agree Sound Everything
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“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”

Hell Going Keep You
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This is the lesson: 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. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Lesson Great Yield Enemy
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“There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.”

Duty Safe Right Fear
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Honest Important Right Thing
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“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

Look Down Equal Treat
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“Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.”

Never Organ Room Discussion
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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

Democracy Voter Argument Against
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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.”

Defend Cost Fight Surrender
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Winston Churchill Quotes & Sayings