The best Quotes by Winston Churchill

The best Quotes by Winston Churchill

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 - January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
(on his 75th birthday)
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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But let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.
July 1940
You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all terror. Victory however long and hard the road may be. For without victory there is no survival.
May 1940
Lady Astor: "If I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston Churchill: "If I were married to you, I'd drink it."
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
March 1943
Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family.
September 1941
We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
June 1940
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
1940
I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it, in defeat I need it.
If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
1941, zu einem Bündnis mit Stalin
I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
"Must you fall asleep while I'm speaking?"
Winston Churchill: "No, it's purely voluntary."

Quotes about Winston Churchill

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The bigger the lie, the more people believe in it.
If we win, we don't have to explain ourselves. If we lose, there's nothing to explain.
The war is won, but the peace is not.
Albert Einstein - December 1945
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When the action is over and we look back, we understand both more and less. This much is certain. Before the Doolittle raid, America knew nothing but defeat. After it, there was hope of victory. Japan realized, for the first time, they could lose and began to pull back. America realized, that she would win and surged forward. It was a war, that changed America and the world. Dorie Miller was the first black American to be awarded the Navy Cross. But he would not be the last. He joined a brotherhood of heroes. World War II, for us, began at Pearl Harbor, and 1.177 men still lie entombed in the battleship Arizona. America suffered, but America grew stronger. It was not inevitable. The times tried our souls, and through the trial, we overcame.
Evelyn Johnson in Pearl Harbor
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In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.
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Anything is possible if you got enough nerve.
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To me, the very definition of the word "broken" suggests that something can be fixed.
Elijah Mikaelson in The Originals - Season 1 Episode 8
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These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.
Barack Obama - White House Correspondents' Dinner 2013
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Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems!
Homer Simpson in The Simpsons - Season 8 Episode 18
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True love lasts a lifetime.
Karen in Love Actually
For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.
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I know it's true
It's all because of you
And if you go away
I know you could never stay
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I'm truly saddened by the death of Her Majesty, The Queen. What an outpouring of love and respect we saw for the Platinum Jubilee for her life of service. How devastated we all feel today shows what she has meant to people in this country and around the world.
David Beckham - September 2022
Love may not make the world go round, but I must admit that it makes the ride worthwhile.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
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Things are never so bad they can't be made worse.
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There's no death for those who don't fear it.
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.
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In the beginning of a jorney, no one knows what to expect. They might have a vague idea the road ahead could be rough. That's what makes new beginnings so exciting. You don't know what will happen until it's over.
Sam Gardner in Atypical - Season 4
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Mrs M, if we were the last three humans on earth, I would be trying to start a family with Baldrick.
Edmund Blackadder in Blackadder
The mind is a complex and many-layered thing, Potter... or at least, most minds are.
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Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!
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Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.
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People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
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Justice comes from vengeance but justice only breeds more vengeance.
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