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There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials.

Winston Churchill
Numbers, Political, Saving

You do your worst, and we'll do our best.

Winston Churchill
Worst
Speech at County Hall, London, 14 July 1941

I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

Winston Churchill
War, Poison Gas, Tribes
Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.375, RosettaBooks

If you put two economists xin a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions.

Winston Churchill
Two, Three, Investing

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Winston Churchill
Inspiring, Responsible, Being Responsible
1950 Radio broadcast, 26 Aug.

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

Winston Churchill
Cynical, Statistics

Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.

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

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

Winston Churchill
Criticism

The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

Winston Churchill
Girl, Doe, Language

Rugby is a hooligans game played by gentlemen.

Winston Churchill
Games, Gentleman, Rugby

A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife’s bed is a cause of the gravest concern.

Winston Churchill
Zoos, Wife, Curiosity
Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill
Peace, Giving Up, War
Remarks at White House luncheon,Washington, D.C., 26 June 1954

It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

Winston Churchill
Real, Patriotic, Loss

The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.

Winston Churchill
Men, Long, Unions
Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.

Winston Churchill
Noble, Use, Strive
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.90, Da Capo Press

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Winston Churchill
Mean, Profit, Please
"Gotham". Book by Winston Churchill. Book II, line 88, 1764.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.

Winston Churchill
Copying, Ruins, Method

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

Winston Churchill
Imperfect World, Goal, Brainstorming
Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Life, Inspiring
Speech at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 6 Sept. 1943

The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

Winston Churchill
Enemy, Benches, Behind You

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.

Winston Churchill
Memories, Book, Men
My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.

Winston Churchill
Strong, Military, War

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

Winston Churchill
Men, Dust

Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

Winston Churchill
Hero, Fighting, Greek

I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.

Winston Churchill
Hope, Thinking, Being Thankful
Winston Churchill (1957). “The world crisis”

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