Winston S. Churchill Quotes - Page 3

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
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Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
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It's no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
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Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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I'm bored with it all. - Last Words
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How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the faith: all know how to die but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.
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If you are going through hell, keep going
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...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
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Never, never, never give in!
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People stumble over the truth from time to time,but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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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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Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
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When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
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This paper, by its very length, defends itself from ever being read.
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An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.
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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.
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All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
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You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, 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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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
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We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
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A joke is a very serious thing.
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To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
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