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Winston Churchill Quotes

Winston Churchill quotes

English Statesman, Politician November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965

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The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it. Winston 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 Churchill
Winston Churchill quote: "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for..."
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill quote: "Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut."
Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. Winston Churchill
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII] Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill quote: "I love to learn but I do not want to be taught"
I love to learn but I do not want to be taught Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill quote: "A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it..."
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. Winston Churchill
When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life. Winston Churchill
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. Winston Churchill
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;... Winston Churchill
Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down. Winston Churchill
I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail. Winston Churchill
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
My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill quote: "I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the..."
I was myself so smitten in public opinion that it was the almost universal view that my political life was at last ended. Winston Churchill

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