Winston Churchill Quotes - Page 27

• The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience.

  Winston Churchill

  Doors, Essence, House

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Great Contemporaries”

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• Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.

  Winston Churchill

  Golf, Pills, Cows

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

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• Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Government, World

  "The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940".

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

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Fighting, Political

  Winston Churchill (1947). “Great Contemporaries”

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• Socialism would gather all power to
  the supreme party and party leaders,
  rising like stately pinnacles
  above their vast bureaucracies of
  civil servants no longer servants, no longer civil.

  Winston Churchill

  Party, Leader, Rising

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

  Winston Churchill

  Disappointment, Achievement, Matter

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• It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.

  Winston Churchill

  Acceptance, Government, Risk

  Speech in House of Commons, 22 Feb. 1906

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• Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

  Winston Churchill

  Children, Pleasure, Fortune

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• We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.

  Winston Churchill

  Tired, Angel, Done

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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 a fateful fatalistic apathy.

  Winston Churchill

  Dog, Men, Muslim Faith

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

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• I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Writing, Political

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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.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Political, Cynical

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

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• Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Night, Joy

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Great Contemporaries”

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• My greatest good fortune in a life of brilliant experiences has been to find you, and to lead my life with you. I don't feel far away from you out here at all. I feel very near in my heart; and also I feel that the nearer I get to honour, the nearer I am to you.

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  Love, Heart, Brilliant

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• The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short.
  Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.

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  Dark, Science, Blessing

  Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

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• If you are going through hell just keep going

  Winston Churchill

  Hell, Ifs, Keep Going

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• I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

  Winston Churchill

  Sorry, Brilliant, Poor

  Dame Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill (1990). “Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

  Winston Churchill

  Eye, Games, Two

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• The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, War, Yield

  "My Early Life: A Roving Commission". Book by Winston Churchill, 1930.

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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.'

  Winston Churchill

  War, Men, Years

  Speech in House of Commons, 18 June 1940

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• There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

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  Success, Men, Discipline

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

  Winston Churchill

  Giving Up, Government, Blood

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• We know enough to be sure that the scientific achievements of the next fifty years will be far greater, more rapid, and more surprising, than those we have already experienced. ... Wireless telephones and television, following naturally upon the their present path of development, would enable their owner to connect up to any room similarly equipped and hear and take part in the conversation as well as if he put his head in through the window.

  Winston Churchill

  Knowledge, Science, Years

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• I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place.

  Winston Churchill

  Real, Taken, Race

  "The Churchill you didn't know". To Palestine Royal Commission, 1937, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2002.

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• History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.

  Winston Churchill

  Memories, Passion, Fate

  Winston Churchill, David Cannadine (1989). “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat: The Speeches of Winston Churchill”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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