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A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble.

Winston Churchill
Glasses, Champagne Drinking, Imagination
Winston Churchill (2012). “The Story of the Malakand Field Force”, p.9, Courier Corporation

The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Perfection, May

We do not war with races primarily as such. Tyranny is our foe. Whatever trapping or disguise it wears, whatever language it speaks, be it external or internal, we must for ever be on our guard, ever mobilized, ever vigilant, always ready to spring at its throat. In all this we march together. Not only do we march and strive shoulder to shoulder at this moment, under the fire of the enemy on the fields of war or in the air, but also in those realms of thought which are consecrated to the rights and the dignity of man.

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

We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.

Winston Churchill
Long, Waiting, Invasion
Radio broadcast to French people, 21 Oct. 1940

From the days of Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx... this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society... has been steadily growing.

Winston Churchill
Civilization, World, Growing

There are two kinds of success-initial and ultimate.

Winston Churchill
Two, Kind, Initials

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Life, Generosity

Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

Winston Churchill
Men, History, Working Man
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

All babies look like me. But then, I look like all babies.

Winston Churchill
Baby, Looks, Like Me

Don't deliver an essay with so many points. No one can absorb it. Just say one thing... Of course, you can say the point in many different ways over and over again with different illustrations.

Winston Churchill
Illustration, Different, Way

If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

Winston Churchill
Writing, Sacrifice, Men

History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past.

Winston Churchill
Future, Past, Historical
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

Winston Churchill
Husband, Wife, Tea

The only guide to man is his conscience.

Winston Churchill
Men, Guides, Conscience
Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

It would be a great reform in politics if perception could be made to spread as easily and as rapidly as foolishness.

Winston Churchill
Wisdom, Perception, Intelligence

You gotta have some balls to be a female PM in England

Winston Churchill
Pms, Female, Balls

The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

Winston Churchill
Broken, House, Trying

First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.

Winston Churchill
Two, Rocks, Years
Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: At the Admiralty, September 1939-May 1940”, William Heinemann

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

Winston Churchill
Military, Simple, Principles

It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism.

Winston Churchill
Liberty, Fundamentals, Socialism
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.478, Da Capo Press

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill
Military, Book, Teaching
My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience.

Winston Churchill
Temples, Vices, Naked
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.230, Hachette UK

No matter. The dead bird does not leave the nest.

Winston Churchill
Fashion, Bird, Doe

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

Winston Churchill
Moving, Home, Independent
Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.114, A&C Black

Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

Winston Churchill
Writing, Tyrants, Mistress

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