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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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More quotes by Winston Churchill
I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'
Winston Churchill
Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.
Winston Churchill
The cemetery is full of indispensable people.
Winston Churchill
Success is never final.
Winston Churchill
The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.
Winston Churchill
I myself find waiting more tiring than action.
Winston Churchill
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston Churchill
Without ships, we cannot live.
Winston Churchill
An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.
Winston Churchill
He is like a female llama surprised in her bath.
Winston Churchill
Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.
Winston Churchill
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.
Winston Churchill
Don't be careless about yourselves--on the other hand not too careful. Live well but do not flaunt it. Laugh a little and teach your men to laugh--get good humor under fire--war is a game that's played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Winston Churchill
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston Churchill
Talking death seriously is one of the tragedies of youth
Winston Churchill
We have no lasting friends, no lasting enemies, only lasting interests.
Winston Churchill
The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss!
Winston Churchill
You must look at facts, because they look at you.
Winston Churchill
Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.
Winston Churchill
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
Winston Churchill