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“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
people.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.”
― Winston Churchill

“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.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ”
― Winston Churchill

“Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them – peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that if you do not know what is in them, you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them at any rate be your acquaintances. If they cannot enter the circle of your life, do not deny them at least a nod of recognition.”
― Winston S. Churchill, Painting As a Pastime

“It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston Churchill

“Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.”
― Winston S. 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.”
― Sir Winston S. Churchill

“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea.
Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened”
― Winston S. Churchill

“What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.”
― Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1874-1904

“If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Keep Calm and Carry On”
― Winston Churchill

“Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
― Winston Churchill

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill