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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.

“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”

— Winston Churchill

Politics

All Quotes by Winston Churchill

“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.”

— Winston Churchill

Best

“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

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

— Winston Churchill

Truth

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

— Winston Churchill

Nature

“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”

— Winston Churchill

Business

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

— Winston Churchill

Courage

“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

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

— Winston Churchill

War

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

— Winston Churchill

Learning

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”

— Winston Churchill

Change

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

— Winston Churchill

Truth

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

— Winston Churchill

Good

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

— Winston Churchill

Art

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

— Winston Churchill

Morning

“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”

— Winston Churchill

Education

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

— Winston Churchill

Power

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

— Winston Churchill

Freedom

“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”

— Winston Churchill

Power

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

— Winston Churchill

Saintpatricksday

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

— Winston Churchill

Politics