Winston Churchill — Quotes and Wisdom

Quotes

18 total quotes

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

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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Never give in. Never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Attitude is a small thing that makes a big difference.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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For myself I am an optimist. It does not seem to be much use being anything else.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

—Winston ChurchillStatesman & Writer

Post-War ERA • Western Europe