Winston Churchill Quotes - Page 4

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

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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. - Winston Churchill

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. Winston Churchill

Monkey, Never, Organ

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill

Read, A Good Thing, Books

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill

Government, Been, Tried

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. - Winston Churchill

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. Winston Churchill

Important, Fine, Very

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. - Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. Winston Churchill

Game, Play, Afford

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Winston Churchill

Destiny, Mistake, Chain

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. - Winston Churchill

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. Winston Churchill

Nothing, Costs, Polite

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. Winston Churchill

Race, Going, Bounce

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. - Winston Churchill

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. Winston Churchill

Receive, Give, Agreeable

Eating words has never given me indigestion. - Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion. Winston Churchill

Never, Given, Indigestion

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. - Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. Winston Churchill

War, Blunders, Mainly

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. Winston Churchill

Simple, Emergency, Endless

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

Business, Some, Private

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, Law, Regulations

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill

Away, Half, Reduce

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. - Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. Winston Churchill

Ask, Show, Shall

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. - Winston Churchill

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. Winston Churchill

I Am, I Believe That, Worms

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill

Death, Prepared, Another

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

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. - Winston Churchill

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Winston Churchill

Words, Old, Speaking

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. Winston Churchill

War, Prisoner, Tries

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill

Always, Personally, Although

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

Politics, Over, Going

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

Enemy, Against, Aircraft

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. - Winston Churchill

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors. - Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors. Winston Churchill

History, Victors, Written

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