Winston Churchill Quotes - Page 34

• All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

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  War, Party, Technique

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

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  Inspiring, Art, New Beginnings

  "Thoughts and Adventures".

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• We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.

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  War, Cat, Land

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

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• 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.

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  Inspiring, Dog, Military

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• If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.

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  Adversity, Office, Feelings

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• The person of truth must be covered with bodyguards of lies.

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  Lying, Bodyguard, Covered

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• The first quality that is needed is audacity.

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  Inspiring, Quality, Audacity

  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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• War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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  Peace, War, Patriotic

  Winston Churchill (2013). “The Second World War”, p.565, A&C Black

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• We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

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  Home, Dwelling, Shapes

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

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• Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.

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  Friendship, Secret, Foe

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

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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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  Friendship, Book, Writing

  Sir Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The gathering storm”, Houghton Mifflin Company

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• Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!

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  Men, Oratory, Talent

  Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

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• And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

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  Fighting, Men, Law

  Sir Winston Churchill, Timothy Baker (1968). “The island race”

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• The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions.

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  Memories, Commitment, Shields

  Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

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• Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

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  Firsts, First Time, Sentences

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• From now on we shall bomb Germany on an ever-increasing scale, month by month, year by year, until the Nazi regime has either been exterminated by us or - better still - torn to pieces by the German people themselves.

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  Years, People, Germany

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• The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed.

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  Cutting, Race, Years

  Winston Churchill's addree as Home Secretary to Prime Minister Asquith on compulsory sterilization of 'the feeble-minded and insane', as quoted in "'Race', Sport and British Society" edited by Ben Carrington and Ian Mcdonald, 2001.

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• Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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  Civilization, Political, Democracy

  Winston Churchill (1952). “The Second World War”

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• Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

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  Political, Politics, Affair

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• Old men make war, young men fight and die

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  War, Fighting, Men

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• It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.

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  Inspiring, Honesty, Truth

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

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• Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

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  Fighting, Battle, Trying

  Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

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• Writing is an adventure.

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  Writing, Adventure

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• In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

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  War, Fighting, Russia

  "War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943".

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• When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

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  Sad, Witty, Powerful

  Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

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