Winston Churchill Quotes

  Winston Churchill was Prime Minister of Great Britain.

He led Britain to victory in World War II and is regarded there as a hero, one of Britain's greatest leaders

Winston Churchill Quotes

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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

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I have nothing to offer but
blood, toil, tears and sweat

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What is our policy?
To wage war against a monstrous tyranny,
never surpassed in the dark,
lamentable catalogue of human crime.
That is our policy.
You ask, what is our aim?
I can answer in one word: It is victory,
victory at all costs,
victory in spite of all terror,
victory, however long and hard the road may be.

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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.

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We shall not flag or fail.
We shall go on to the end.
We shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air,
we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be.
We shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender.

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

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

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Democracy is the worst form of Government
except all those other forms
that have been tried from time to time

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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

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Mr Gladstone read Homer for fun,
which I thought served him right

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Never in the field of human conflict
was so much owed by so many to so few.

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Business carried on as usual
during the alterations on the map of Europe

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I am fond of pigs.
Dogs look up to us.
Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals.

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He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, "Before they get up, the do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they have sat down, they do not know what they have said."
(On Lord Charles Beresford)

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A sheep in sheep's clothing
(On Clement Atlee)

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I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder". My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralising and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see the The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
(On Ramsay MacDonald)

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