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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Funny, Life

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Witty, Party
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.

Winston Churchill
Risk, Great Success, Enormous

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Sarcastic, Witty
"Churchill 'in the year of Trump': Darkest Hour feeds America's love for Winston" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2017.

To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

Winston Churchill
Life, Motivational, Success

Appeasement is feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last.

Winston Churchill
Lasts, Someday, Appeasement

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Hope, Freedom
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Truth, Honesty
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.

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

Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.

Winston Churchill
Lying, Exercise, Feelings

If you find a job you love, you'll never work again.

Winston Churchill
Jobs, Love You, Ifs

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Winston Churchill
Wise, Mistake, Men

In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Witty, War

Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

Winston Churchill
Inspiring, Opportunity, Mouths

If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

Winston Churchill
Peace, Freedom, War
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you want to discover new oceans, you must first have the courage to leave shore.

Winston Churchill
Ocean, Want, Firsts

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Life, Motivational

If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.

Winston Churchill
Past, Political, Trying

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.

Winston Churchill
Husband, Tea, Poison

I began my education at a very early age; in fact, right after I left college.

Winston Churchill
Education, Teaching, College

Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price

Winston Churchill
Sleep, Thinking, Pounds

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

Winston Churchill
Strong, Queens, Fall
"The River War: An Historical Account of the Reconquest of the Soudan (Volume II)". Book by Winston Churchill, 1899.

One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.

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

When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.

Winston Churchill
Motivational, Judging, Criticism

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