Winston Churchill Quotes - Page 12

• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Death, Witty

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 28 Nov. 1954

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• Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Leadership

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• We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Military, Oats

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• Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Mistake, Moving, Enthusiasm

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• The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.

  Winston Churchill

  Tired, People, Tests

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.

  Winston Churchill

  Success, Courage, Failure

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• No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, Fall, Socialist Government

  Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.478, Da Capo Press

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• You ought to let the Jews have Jerusalem; it is they who made it famous.

  Winston Churchill

  Jerusalem, Made, Jew

  "The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide".

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• It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.

  Winston Churchill

  Ambition, Masters, Spoken Word

  Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

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• Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Army, British Navy

  In Sir Peter Gretton Former Naval Person (1968) ch. 1

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

  Winston Churchill

  Decision, Genius, Information

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• Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Virtue, Loses

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• No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith.

  Winston Churchill

  Muslim Faith, Islam, Stronger

  "The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

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• When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Humorous, Want

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• The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

  Winston Churchill

  Copying, Ruins, Method

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• Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.

  Winston Churchill

  Courage, Moving, Eye

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Positive, Badass

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• I am in favor of deliberately spreading methodically prepared bacteria among people and animals -- mildew ... to destroy the harvests, anthrax to destroy horses and livestock, and the plague, in order to kill not only entire armies, but also the inhabitants of large regions.

  Winston Churchill

  Horse, Army, Animal

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• The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

  Winston Churchill

  Enemy, Benches, Behind You

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• This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.

  Winston Churchill

  Pedants, Type, Prepositions

  Wall Street Journal, December 9, 1948.

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

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Responsible, Being Responsible

  1950 Radio broadcast, 26 Aug.

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• There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

  Winston Churchill

  Numbers, Political, Saving

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• 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 Churchill

  Family, Girl, Famous Love

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Poison Gas, Tribes

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.375, RosettaBooks

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