Quotes by Winston Churchill | Best Quotes of All Time

"If you're going through hell, keep going."

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Motivational You Hell Keep Going

"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

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Beginning End Now Even

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

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Life Brainy Living Give Make

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

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Life Good You Enemies

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."

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Attitude Big Difference Little

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

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Change Perfect Improve Often

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

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Best Democracy Government Argument

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

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You The Right Thing Always Everything

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

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Truth World Lie Chance Pants

"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."

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Failure Ignorance Socialism Envy

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

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Funny You Morning Drunk

"Never, never, never give up."

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Motivational Never Never Give Up Up

"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

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I Am Look Pet Treat

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

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Opportunity Pessimist Difficulty Sees

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

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Success Failure Enthusiasm Loss

"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."

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War Fight Never Whatever

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

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Courage Speak Stand Stand Up

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

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Hope Justice Great Simple

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

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Architecture Us Buildings Shape Our

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

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Opportunity Pessimist Difficulty Sees

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

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Truth Ignorance End Truth Is

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

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Will Who Last Crocodile Eat

"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

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Success Best You Succeed

"It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see."

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Wise Future You Ahead

"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

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Strength Time Comfort Dare Endure

"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

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Capitalism Socialism Virtue Sharing

"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

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Truth War Always Precious

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

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Difficulties Opportunities Won

"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it."

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Strength Wind Rise Against

"History is written by the victors."

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History Written Victors

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."

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You Look See Forward Backward

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

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Devil Hell House Make

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

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Change Mind Who Subject

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

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Future Past Lost Find Open

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

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You Never Will Try

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

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History Me Will Be Kind

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

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Learning I Am Always Like Ready

"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."

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Long Victory Survival Road

"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

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I Am Anything Too Much Being

"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

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Mystery Inside Enigma Russia Riddle

"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

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Opinion Only Public Public Opinion

"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

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Day Slow Task Act

"Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

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Will Ending Something Up Sentence

"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."

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You Communication Time Try

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

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Great Responsibility Greatness Price

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."

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Communication Risk Being Against

"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

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Always Like Ready Learn

"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."

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Never Monkey Room Hold

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."

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Life Nothing Result Shot Without

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