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It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them.

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Purpose, Wonderful
Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Jobs, Military
Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them.

Winston Churchill
Principles, Easy

The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it.

Winston Churchill
Perfection, Trying, Way

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Winston Churchill
Military, Air, Force
Winston S. Churchill (2010). “The Gathering Storm: The Second World War”, p.562, RosettaBooks

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

Winston Churchill
Life, Country, Dark
Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

There but for the grace of God, goes God.

Winston Churchill
Sarcastic, Grace, Insult
Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

Winston Churchill
Men, Secret, Wonderful
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”

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

Winston Churchill
Lonely, Light, The End Of The Day
Dame Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill (1990). “Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

Winston Churchill
Democracy, Voters, Want

A polo handicap is a persons ticket to the world.

Winston Churchill
Horse, World, Tickets

There must not be lacking in our leadership something of that spirit of the Austrian corporal who, when all had fallen into ruins around him, and when Germany seemed to have fallen into chaos, did not hesitate to march forth against the vast army of victorious nations and has already turned the tables decisively against them.

Winston Churchill
Army, Germany, Tables

Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill
Graduation, Being Strong, Perseverance
Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.

Winston Churchill
War, Race, Long
Winston Churchill (1957). “The world crisis”

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Winston Churchill
Love, Family, Happiness
Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

Winston Churchill
Letting Go, Dog, Breathing

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Winston Churchill
Life, Humorous, Vices
Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

Winston Churchill
War, Fighting, Three
Speech to joint session of Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 Dec. 1941

Sunshine is my quest.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Sunshine, Vacation

Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

Winston Churchill
Sentiments, Pious
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.494, Da Capo Press

I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.

Winston Churchill
Real, Use, Tribes
"The Churchill you didn't know". Writing as president of the Air Council, 1919, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2002.

A joke is a very serious thing.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Humorous, Serious Things

This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame.

Winston Churchill
Men, Hatred, Soul
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.356, Da Capo Press

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Winston Churchill
Business, Insperational, Games
Winston Churchill (1973). “Liberalism and the Social Problem”, p.249, Library of Alexandria

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

Winston Churchill
Men, Rats, Driving
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.66, Da Capo Press

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