Winston Churchill Quotes - Page 5

• Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Success, Failure

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• There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Greatness, Special

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• A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, Needs, Bigger

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• After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Term Limits, Politics

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• Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

  Winston Churchill

  Russia, Mystery, Riddle

  Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939

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• The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.

  Winston Churchill

  Wicked, Weakness, Malice

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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

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• Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.

  Winston Churchill

  Thoughtful, Men, Race

  "Is the Threat of a Nuclear Iran Fallen on Deaf Ears?". www.beliefnet.com.

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• There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

  Winston Churchill

  Sheep, Way, Flocks

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• The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

  Winston Churchill

  People, Cemetery, Indispensable

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• Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

  Winston Churchill

  Spread, Manure, Ifs

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• The difference between mere management and leadership is communication.

  Winston Churchill

  Communication, Differences, Management

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• A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

  Winston Churchill

  Wise, Anger, Character

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• One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Trying, Double Standard

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• You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Fighting, Odds Against You

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

  Winston Churchill

  Black, Free Market, Ifs

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

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• If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

  Winston Churchill

  Thinking, Hands, Throat

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• An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

  Winston Churchill

  Nature, Educational, Humorous

  Reader's Digest, December 1954.

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• Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.

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• Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... 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, Moving, Fall

  Hansard 18 June 1940, col. 60

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• If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

  Winston Churchill

  Respect, Not Giving Up, Law

  "Churchill By Himself".

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• The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Truth, Business

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• The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.

  Winston Churchill

  Art, Race, Age

  "Churchill: The Statesman as Artist". Book by David Cannadine, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

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• Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

  Winston Churchill

  Opportunity, Dust, People

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• I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.

  Winston Churchill

  Hate, People, Beastly

  Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.328, RosettaBooks

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