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Quotes by Winston Churchill

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People say we ought not to allow ourselves to be drawn into a theoretical antagonism between Nazidom and democracy. But the antagonism is here now. It is this very conflict of spiritual and moral ideas which gives the free countries a great part of their strength.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

Victory is never final. Defeat is never fatal. It is courage that counts.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

Is it the only lesson of history that mankind is unteachable?
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as folly.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

...I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

The flame of Christian ethics is still our best guide... only on this basis can we reconcile the rights of the individual with the demands of society.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

If I were asked the difference between Socialism and Communism, I could only reply that the Socialist tries to lead us to disaster by foolish words and the Communist could try to drive us there by violent deeds.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman--they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

Time is neutral; but it can be made the ally of those who will seize it and use it to the full.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

You cannot cure cancer by a majority. What is wanted is a remedy.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

At Blenheim I took two very important decisions: to be born and marry. I am content with the decision I took on both occasions. I have never had cause to regret either.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile hoping it will eat him last.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

The honourable gentleman is never fortuitous in the coincidence of his facts with truth.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

[Civilization is] a state of society where moral force begins to escape from the tyranny of physical force.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

The short road to ruin is to emulate... the methods of your adversary.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

War is horrible but slavery is worse.
    --Winston Churchill  Quote info

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