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- So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 12, 1936
- Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), (attributed)
- Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech in November 1942
- From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech in March 1946
- Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Radio speech, 1941
- It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9
- I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), quoted in Rudolf Flesch, ed., "The New Book of Unusual Quotations" (NY: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 311
- 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech, 1941, Harrow School
- Never, never, 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. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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