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A good speech should be a like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest. - WINSTON CHURCHILL — Bill McGowan

I hate nobody except Hitler
and that is professional. — Winston S. Churchill

Success is going from one failure to the next without losing enthusiasm — Winston S. Churchill

What's poetry? It's not real but maybe it's more than real. It's dreaming while you're awake. — Caryl Churchill

The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes. — Lord Randolph Churchill

Good and great are seldom in the same man. — Winston S. Churchill

Even in a hero's heart
Discretion is the better part. — Charles Churchill

After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play. When I am in the Socratic — Winston S. Churchill

Cold steel and discipline and the slight capital surplus necessary to move and organise armies constituted the sole defences. — Winston S. Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on. — Winston S. Churchill

The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire. — Winston Churchill

A change is as good as a rest. — Winston S. Churchill

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt. — Winston S. Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed. — Winston S. Churchill

I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator. — Winston S. Churchill

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. — Winston S. Churchill

I love to learn but I do not want to be taught — Winston S. Churchill

I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future. — Winston S. Churchill

A modest little person, with much to be modest about. — Winston S. Churchill

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. — Winston S. Churchill

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

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result. — Winston S. Churchill

You may always walk with the Devil till you get to the end of the bridge. — Winston S. Churchill

We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us. — Winston S. Churchill

It matters very little whether your judgments of people are true or untrue, and very much whether they are kind or unkind, — Winston S. Churchill

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. — Winston S. Churchill

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required. — Winston S. Churchill

The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. — Winston S. Churchill

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. — Winston S. Churchill

He spoke with more eloquence than wisdom. — Winston S. Churchill

Success always demands a greater effort. — Winston S. Churchill

This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put. — Winston S. Churchill

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose — Winston S. Churchill

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. — Winston S. Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston S. Churchill

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. — Winston S. Churchill

Nations that went down fighting rose again, but those who surrendered tamely were finished. — Winston S. Churchill

I always avoid prophesying beforehand because it is much better to prophesy after the event has already taken place. — Winston S. Churchill

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind. — Winston S. Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. — Winston S. Churchill

My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best. — Winston S. Churchill

It was their own offensive, not ours, that consummated their ruin. They were worn down not by Joffre, Nivelle and Haig, but by Ludendorff. See — Winston S. Churchill

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman. — Winston Churchill

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate. — Winston Churchill

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

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage. — Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give in! — Winston S. Churchill

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words. — Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. — Winston S. Churchill

I don't like mixing up moralities with mathematics. — Winston S. Churchill

Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man. — Winston S. Churchill

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. — Winston S. Churchill

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. — Winston Churchill

When men are fighting for their lives they are not often disposed to be complimentary to those who are trying to kill them. — Winston S. Churchill

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. — Winston S. Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. — Winston S. Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. — Winston S. Churchill

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. — Winston S. Churchill

when you're going through hell, keep going. — Winston S. Churchill

there is no such thing as a good tax — Winston S. Churchill

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us. — Winston S. Churchill

They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other. — Winston S. Churchill

Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. — Winston S. Churchill

A society is measured by the treatment of its prisoners — Winston S. Churchill

The Hun is always either at your throat or at your feet. — Winston S. Churchill

Men sometimes stumble over the truth, but often pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing had happened — Winston S. Churchill

Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see. — Winston S. Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. — Winston S. Churchill

We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm. — Winston S. Churchill

By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach. — Winston S. Churchill

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber. — Winston S. Churchill

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War. — Eamon De Valera

Later these tales would be retold and embellished by the genius of Mallory, Spenser, and Tennyson. — Winston S. Churchill

I am easily satisfied with the very best. — Winston S. Churchill

This is the sort of English up with which I will not put. — Winston S. Churchill

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

Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal. — Winston S. Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. — Winston S. Churchill

And being as wicked as any man who ever lived, he exploited his advantage to the full. — Winston S. Churchill

There is only one thing worse than fighting with allies, and that is fighting without them — Winston S. Churchill

In War: Resolution,
In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will. — Winston S. Churchill

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war — Winston S. Churchill

You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success. — Winston Churchill

Bolsheviks create their own difficulties which they successfully overcame later. — Winston S. Churchill

Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning. — Winston S. Churchill

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all. — Winston S. Churchill

It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
people. — Winston S. Churchill

Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down. — Winston S. Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. — Winston S. Churchill

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry — Winston S. Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. — Winston S. Churchill

This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning. — Winston S. Churchill

The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy. — Winston S. Churchill

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure. — Winston Churchill

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. — Winston S. Churchill

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found. — Winston S. Churchill

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

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome. — Winston S. Churchill

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. — Winston S. Churchill

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar. — Winston Churchill