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A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Winston Churchill
Vocabulary, Simplicity, Simple Life

You haven't learned life's lesson very well if you haven't noticed that you can give the tone or colour, or decide the reaction you want of people in advance. It's unbelievable simply. If you want them to take an interest in you, take an interest in them first. If you want to make them nervous, become nervous yourself...It's as simple as that. People will treat you as you treat them. It's no secret. Look about you. You can prove it with the next person you meet.

Winston Churchill
Simple, People, Giving

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Adequacy, Standards
Winston Churchill (1966). “Churchill in His Own Words: Years of Greatness, Memorable Speeches of the Man of the Century”

There is nothing like oratory, it is a skill that can turn a commoner into a king.

Winston Churchill
Kings, Skills, Oratory

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

Winston Churchill
Lying, People, Canada

They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall.

Winston Churchill
Party, Political, Fit
"The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill".

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Winston Churchill
Business, Being Sad, Risk

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.

Winston Churchill
Europe, United States, Kind
Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Humorous, Fighting
Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety.

Winston Churchill
Mistake, Safety, Path
"Churchill By Himself".

No one should waste a day.

Winston Churchill
Philosophy, Waste, Should
Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Winston Churchill
Games, Play, Design

No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

Winston Churchill
Victory, Purpose, Compromise
Winston Churchill's remarks at a joint Anglo-American rally in Westminster (July 4, 1918), as quoted in "War Aims & Peace Ideals: Selections in Prose & Verse, Illustrating the Aspirations of the Modern World" edited by Tucker Brooke and Henry Seidel Canby (p. 138), 1919.

Never let a good crisis go to waste

Winston Churchill
Inspiring, Waste, Crisis

...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation... this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

Winston Churchill
Country, Men, Hair
"Bolshevism versus Zionism; a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people". Winston Churchill, Illustrated Daily Herald, February 8, 1920.

Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

Winston Churchill
Men, Race, Hands
Winston Churchill (1995). “Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples”, Barnes & Noble

Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

Winston Churchill
Hate, Beer, People

Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.

Winston Churchill
Dog, People, Bike

When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths.

Winston Churchill
Epilepsy, Games, Play
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Winston Churchill
Wisdom, Believe, History
Quoted in Violet Bonham-Carter, Winston Churchill as I Knew Him (1965)

Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing.

Winston Churchill
Fun, Lovely, Looks
Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

Winston Churchill
Muslim Faith, Agriculture, Religion Of Islam
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Da Capo Press

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

Winston Churchill
Inspiring, Mercy, Shows

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity.

Winston Churchill
Dog, Men, Agriculture
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.50, Hachette UK

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