" [On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

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

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech in November 1942 British politician (1874 – 1965)

" Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent. "

Winston Churchill

" The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt… We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. "

Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1941 British politician (1874 – 1965)

" Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes? "

Winston Churchill, responding to a journalist

" I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. "

Winston Churchill

" Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few. "

Winston Churchill, Speech about World War II

" We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire…Give us the tools and we will finish the job. "

Sir Winston Churchill, BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941 British politician (1874 – 1965)

" Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. "

Churchill

" The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill- designed for the purpose. "

Winston Churchill

" Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her. "

Winston Churchill

" There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. "

Sir Winston Churchill, Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943 British politician (1874 – 1965)

" He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" Immature love says, I love you because I need you, mature love says, I need you because I love you. "

Winston Churchill

" A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

" My wife and I tried to breakfast together, but we had to stop or our marriage would have been wrecked. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

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

Churchill

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

Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday British politician (1874 – 1965)

" It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. "

Sir Winston Churchill British politician (1874 – 1965)

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