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Winston Churchill Quotes About War

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

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A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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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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Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

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In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

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When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

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Winston Churchill Quotes About Writing

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

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

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Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

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The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

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

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

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More Quotes by Winston Churchill

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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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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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

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

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

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

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These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

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

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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

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India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

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

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

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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.

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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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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

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The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

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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 occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.

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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.

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

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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

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If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.

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Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

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Browse 169 quotes attributed to Winston Churchill, listed in the source data as a English Statesman, organized around themes such as War, Writing, Honesty. Use the topic links to explore similar quotes, or browse the full author collection in one place.