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

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

Winston Churchill
Courage, Time, Not Giving Up
Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

Courage is the greatest virtue because it guarantees all the rest.

Winston Churchill
Guarantees, Virtue

Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

Winston Churchill
Taste, Leisure, Wealth

Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose.

Winston Churchill
Golf, Trying, Balls

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

Winston Churchill
Scotland, Greek, Earth

Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.

Winston Churchill
Lobbyists, Protected, Industry

I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies.

Winston Churchill
Ocean, Army, Air
"War Situation". Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. August 2, 1944.

There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away.

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Mistake, False Hope
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.

Winston Churchill
Blessing, Wells, Ifs
1945 On his defeat in the first post-war general election, quoted in Richard Nixon Memoirs (1978).

They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

Winston Churchill
Military, Lasts, Crocodiles

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Winston Churchill
Peace, Race, Wish
Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Winston Churchill
Perseverance, Persevere, Conquer
Winston Churchill's remarks at the Guildhall after the first British naval victory of World War I (September 4, 1914), as quoted in Martin Gilbert "Churchill: A Life" (p. 279), October 15, 1992.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Health, Apology
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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

Winston Churchill
Not Giving Up, House, Devil
The Second World War vol. 3 (1950)

Never run away from anything. Never!

Winston Churchill
Running, Healing, Double Standard

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Simplicity, Intense
Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.623, Simon and Schuster

Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

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

We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed.

Winston Churchill
Dream, Hope, Europe
"The United States of Europe". The Saturday Evening Post (February 15, 1930), later quoted in "The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill, Volume II: Churchill and Politics" (p. 184), 1976.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

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

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

Winston Churchill
Military, Victory, Retreat
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

A sheep in sheep's clothing.

Winston Churchill
Witty, Sheep, Clothings
Quoted in GeoffreyWillans and Charles Roetter, The Wit of Winston Churchill (1954)

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Winston Churchill
Being Strong, Military, Character
Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.

Winston Churchill
Winning, Care, Ifs
Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Winston Churchill
Humorous, Ocean, Mountain
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Winston Churchill
Wise, Journey, Joy
Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

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