Winston Churchill Quotes
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“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.”
“There is no such thing as a good tax.”
“There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.”
“There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.”
“These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”
“This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.”
“This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.”
“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.”
“To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.”
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
“To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.”
“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.”
“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”
“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”
“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”
“We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.”
“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.”
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
“We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.”
“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”
Winston Churchill Bio:
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, FRS (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, an historian, writer and artist. To date, he is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the second person to be recognised as an Honorary Citizen of the United States.
During his army career, Churchill saw military action in India, the Sudan and the Second Boer War. He gained fame and notoriety as a war correspondent and through contemporary books he wrote describing the campaigns. He also served briefly in the British Army on the Western Front in World War I, commanding the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers.
At the forefront of the political scene for almost fifty years, he held many political and cabinet positions. Before the First World War, he served as President of the Board of Trade, Home Secretary and First Lord of the Admiralty as part of the Asquith Liberal government. During the war he continued as First Lord of the Admiralty until the disastrous Gallipoli Campaign caused his departure from government. He returned as Minister of Munitions, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Air. In the interwar years, he served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Conservative government.
After the outbreak of the Second World War, Churchill was again appointed First Lord of the Admiralty. Following the resignation of Neville Chamberlain on 10 May 1940, he became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and led Britain to victory against the Axis powers. Churchill was always noted for his speeches, which became a great inspiration to the British people and to the embattled Allied forces.
After losing the 1945 election, he became Leader of the Opposition. In 1951 he again became Prime Minister, before finally retiring in 1955. Upon his death, the Queen granted him the honour of a state funeral, which saw one of the largest assemblies of statesmen in the world.
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