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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Winston Churchill
Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
Winston Churchill
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Winston Churchill
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Winston Churchill
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Winston Churchill
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Winston Churchill
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Winston Churchill
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
Winston Churchill
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
Winston Churchill
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Winston Churchill
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston Churchill
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
Winston Churchill
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston Churchill
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
Winston Churchill
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
Winston Churchill
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill
The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Winston Churchill
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
Winston Churchill
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
Winston Churchill
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
Winston Churchill
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Winston Churchill
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston 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.
Winston Churchill
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Winston Churchill
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
Winston Churchill
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
Winston Churchill
Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
Winston Churchill
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Winston Churchill
