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Winston Churchill

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Sir Winston Churchill (1874–1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II. His leadership and stirring oratory rallied the British people during their darkest hours. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his mastery of historical and biographical description.

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“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”

— Winston Churchill

War

All Quotes by Winston Churchill

“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”

— Winston Churchill

Good

“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”

— Winston Churchill

War

“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

“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”

— Winston Churchill

Time

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”

— Winston Churchill

Best

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”

— Winston Churchill

Courage

“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”

— Winston Churchill

Business

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

— Winston Churchill

History

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

— Winston Churchill

Life

“When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.”

— Winston Churchill

War

“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”

— Winston Churchill

Best

“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”

— Winston Churchill

Politics

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

— Winston Churchill

Good

“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

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

— Winston Churchill

Truth

“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”

— Winston Churchill

War

“There is no such thing as a good tax.”

— Winston Churchill

Good

“Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.”

— Winston Churchill

Politics

“History is written by the victors.”

— Winston Churchill

History

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

— Winston Churchill

Future