Winston Churchill Quotes - Page 36

• Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Men, Giving

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• I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.

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  Adversity, Broken, Darkness

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• I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

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  Believe, Data, Generations

  Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

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• I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

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  Worry, Busy, Too Busy

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• You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

  Winston Churchill

  Soldier, Together, May

  Quoted in Harold Macmillan, The Blast of War: 1939 - 45 (1968) (entry for 16 Nov. 1943)

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• Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

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  Path, Improvement, Feels

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.340, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• These are great days.

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  Shining, Great Day

  Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

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• History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .

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  War, Men, Civilization

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• By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

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  Clever, Latin, Learning

  My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

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• It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.

  Winston Churchill

  Time, Bystanders, Hands

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The further back I look, the further forward I can see.

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  Looks, I Can

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• I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

  Winston Churchill

  Humorous, Eating, Indigestion

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• We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Building

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

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  Organization, World, Way

  Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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• It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.

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  Betrayal, Rats, Betray

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• Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

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  Class, Two, Effort

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• No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta.

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  War, World, Malta

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.295, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

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  War, Order, World

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• How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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  Life, Wise, Drama

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame and will get war.

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  War, Choices, England

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• We are really doing our very best. There are no doubt many mistakes and shortcomings. A lot of things are done none too well. Some things that ought to be done have not yet been done...[But Britain's effort has] justly commanded the wonder and admiration of every friendly nation in the world.

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  War, Mistake, Effort

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• Dead birds don't fall out of their nests.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Fall, Humor

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• I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

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  Play, Ideas, Dwelling

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

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  Wrong Things

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• What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?

  Winston Churchill

  Mean, Flying, Doe

  "How Churchill chased flying saucers" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2001.

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