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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.

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

— Winston Churchill

Pet

All Quotes by Winston Churchill

“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

Politics

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

— Winston Churchill

Diet

“One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.”

— Winston Churchill

Time

“If you're going through hell, keep going.”

— Winston Churchill

Motivational

“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”

— Winston Churchill

Saintpatricksday

“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”

— Winston Churchill

Pet

“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”

— Winston Churchill

Future

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

— Winston Churchill

Politics

“A joke is a very serious thing.”

— Winston Churchill

Humor

“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

“For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.”

— Winston Churchill

History

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

— Winston Churchill

Best

“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.”

— Winston Churchill

Power

“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.”

— Winston Churchill

Power

“My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.”

— Winston Churchill

Life

“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”

— Winston Churchill

Government

“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

“We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

— Winston Churchill

Truth

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

— Winston Churchill

Courage

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

— Winston Churchill

Future