Winston Churchill Quotes - Page 4

British - Statesman November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965 Read full biography

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We 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 Churchill

Man, Nation, Trying, Try, Prosperity, Up

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

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

Life, Result, Nothing, Without, Shot

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. Winston Churchill

Communication, Time, You, Back, Try

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 Churchill

Smile, War, Game, You, Way, Out

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. - Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Winston Churchill

Politics, Respect, Law, You, Destroy

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. - Winston Churchill

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. Winston Churchill

Communication, Risk, Against, Being

I am easily satisfied with the very best. - Winston Churchill

I am easily satisfied with the very best. Winston Churchill

Best, I Am, Satisfied, Very, Am, Easily

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

Courage, Quality, Human, Others, First

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

Meeting, Opening, Bottle, Your, Like

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

Day, Slow, Single, Build, Years, Destroy

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. Winston Churchill

Myself, War, Politics, I Am, Painting

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. Winston Churchill

Future, Fear, Look, Dark, Back, Worst

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. Winston Churchill

Sorry, Poor, Pretend, Brilliant, Cannot

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

Fear, Sometimes, Meaning, Sense, Writer

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. Winston Churchill

Victory, Problems, Difficult, Defeat

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. Winston Churchill

Moment, Patriotism, Fight, Country, Only

No crime is so great as daring to excel. - Winston Churchill

No crime is so great as daring to excel. Winston Churchill

Great, Crime, Excel, Daring

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

War, Politics, You, Dangerous, Only

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

Respect, People, Bad, Nation, Unique

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. Winston Churchill

Heart, Lion, Luck, Nation, Race, Roar

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. Winston Churchill

World, New, Your, Old, Left, Plans

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. Winston Churchill

Wife, Together, Breakfast, Stop, Three

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. Winston Churchill

War, Politics, Poison, Like, May, Gas

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

World, True, Worst, Half, Going, Lies

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. Winston Churchill

Great, Always, Land, Inspiration, Up

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. Winston Churchill

Devil, Hell, House, Make, Would, Least

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