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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

Winston Churchill
Courage, Virtue, Depends

Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

Winston Churchill
Intelligent, Use Of Power, Use

Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius.

Winston Churchill
Keys, Preparation, Genius

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Hair, Planning

Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation.

Winston Churchill
Beautiful, Cutting, Tree

You create your own universe as you go along.

Winston Churchill
Wise, Law Of Attraction, Spirituality
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

Never, ever ever ever ever give up.

Winston Churchill
Giving Up, Hard Times, Giving

If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.

Winston Churchill
Acceptance, Grace, Submit
Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.193, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

Winston Churchill
Nature, Moving, Cutting
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”

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.

Winston Churchill
Storm, Lasts, Rage
Winston Churchill, Emery Reves, Martin Gilbert (1997). “Winston Churchill and Emery Reves: Correspondence, 1937-1964”, p.230, University of Texas Press

Never flinch, never weary, never despair.

Winston Churchill
Despair, Fair Play, Weary
Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.399, A&C Black

These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days.

Winston Churchill
Views, Land, Two
Churchill's "The Few" Speech, www.foxnews.com. August 20, 1940.

In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable.

Winston Churchill
Sound, Finance, Disagreeable
Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.56, RosettaBooks

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Winston Churchill
Military, Drinking, Taken
In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Work, Addresses

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews.

Winston Churchill
Needs, Revolution, Creation
"Bolshevism versus Zionism; a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people". Winston Churchill, Illustrated Daily Herald, February 8, 1920.

Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

Winston Churchill
Good Night, Morning, War
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.363, Da Capo Press

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained.

Winston Churchill
Family, Home, Doubt
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

Winston Churchill
Short Words, Shortness
"The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill".

Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

Winston Churchill
Government, Play, Hatred
Sir Winston Churchill (1931). “The world crisis”

You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world.

Winston Churchill
Children, Men, Long

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

Winston Churchill
Art, Book, Fall
Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

Winston Churchill
Purpose

Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston Churchill
Being Strong, Encouraging, Courage
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too.

Winston Churchill
War, Shame, Attributes
"Churchill By Himself".

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