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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Winston Churchill
Military, Safety, Trying
Sir Winston Churchill (1942). “The Unrelenting Struggle: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...”

In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered.

Winston Churchill
Sarcastic, Children, Men
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

Winston Churchill
Life, Fate, Soul

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

Winston Churchill
India, Term, United Nations
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

Do what you like, but like what you do.

Winston Churchill

The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation.

Winston Churchill
Christian, War, Civilization
"Churchill: The blood sweat and tears behind his finest hour speech" by Sam Jones, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2010.

The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

Winston Churchill
Real, War, Men

The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Witty, United States
"Greenfield: Un-kept promises" by Jeff Greenfield, www.cnn.com. January 24, 2007.

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill
Art, Military, Reading
Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.

Winston Churchill
Science, Gentleman, Facts

Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound.

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

It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

Winston Churchill
Allies, Likes, Opinion
Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The hinge of fate”

The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

Winston Churchill
Possibility, Vistas, Shortness Of Life

I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.

Winston Churchill
Found, My Own, Diets

The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts.

Winston Churchill
Tired, Mind, Leisure
Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

Doubts could be swept away only by deeds.

Winston Churchill
Doubt, Deeds, Swept Away
"Their Finest Hour".

In Success you deserve it and in defeat, you need it.

Winston Churchill
Needs, Defeat, Champagne

When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

Winston Churchill
Horse, Equestrian, Equine

It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities.

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

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

Winston Churchill
Nature, Science, Men
Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

I do not wonder that British youth is in revolt against the morbid doctrine that nothing matters but the equal sharing of miseries; that what used to be called the submerged tenth can only be rescued by bringing the other nine-tenths down to their le.

Winston Churchill
Matter, Nine, Doctrine

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Winston Churchill
Expression, Quiet, Splendid
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.

Winston Churchill
Life, Night, Firsts
"Sticks, stones and custard" by Ariane Sherine, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2009.

I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Winston Churchill
Math, Feelings, Let It Go
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.

Winston Churchill
Belief, Throwing, States
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.273, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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