You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." "If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival."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.".
Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public." To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen." "Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year.It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” "Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.".“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”.“Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.”.“Attitude is a little thing that makes a BIG difference.”."History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.".But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." You know you will never get to the end of the journey. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others."."Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all."."Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."."Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.".But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half." If you do that, you will double the danger. "One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it."Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."."Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."."The price of greatness is responsibility."."The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.".
In fact, the tricky bit is choosing which ones to leave out. In his 90 years as a soldier, journalist, prolific author, politician and statesman during the first half of the 20th century, Winston Churchill had many opportunities to influence world events, and while opinions on his various successes and failures can be steeply divided, his was a hard-won wisdom, which he expressed with great pith and wit.īeing a natural statesman, and a great writer to boot, he was very good at putting that wisdom to use, and there are so many quotable examples from his various speeches and public comments that it's easy to compile a list of his most inspirational thoughts, the ones that would apply to a multitude of situations, to be issued on Winston Churchill Day (which is April 9).
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