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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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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

— Winston Churchill

Freedom

All Quotes by Winston Churchill

“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

— Winston Churchill

Truth

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

— Winston Churchill

Motivational

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

— Winston Churchill

Politics

“When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.”

— Winston Churchill

War

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

— Winston Churchill

Truth

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

— Winston Churchill

Great

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

— Winston Churchill

History

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”

— Winston Churchill

Men

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”

— Winston Churchill

History

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

— Winston Churchill

Failure

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

— Winston Churchill

Learning

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

— Winston Churchill

Life

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

— Winston Churchill

Government

“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

“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”

— Winston Churchill

Art

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

— Winston Churchill

Time

“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.”

— Winston Churchill

Time

“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

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

— Winston Churchill

Politics

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

— Winston Churchill

Attitude