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Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance.

Winston Churchill
War, Winning, Men
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Winston Churchill
Inspiring, Military, Giving

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

Winston Churchill
Courage, Thinking, Long
Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed.

Winston Churchill
Mistake, Promise, Victory
Source: www.nbcnews.com

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.

Winston Churchill
Sticks, Urban, Planning

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

Winston Churchill
Beautiful, Women, Impossible
Sir Winston Churchill (1956). “Savrola: a tale of the revolution in Laurania”, Random

There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Winston Churchill
Space, Duty, Obligation

We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy.

Winston Churchill
Interesting, Sugar, Way
Speech to joint session of Canadian Parliament, Ottawa, 30 Dec. 194

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Winston Churchill
Smile, Peace, War

Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Men, Each Day
Winston Churchill (1959). “The World Crisis”

There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed.

Winston Churchill
Long, Decision, Facts
Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world.

Winston Churchill
Laughter, Children, Fun
Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

Winston Churchill
War, Victory And Defeat, Problem
Winston Churchill, Colin Coote, Ryōichi Amano (1965). “チャ-チル名言集”

Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical.

Winston Churchill
Destiny, Free Will, Mark
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.

Winston Churchill
Leader, Soldier, Triumph
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.4, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We must learn from misfortune the means of future strength.

Winston Churchill
War, Mean, Misfortunes

Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

Winston Churchill
Philosophy, Virtue, Symmetry
Winston Churchill (1949). “The Sinews of Peace: Post-war Speeches”

Advertising mourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production.

Winston Churchill
Home, Men, Goal

Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.

Winston Churchill
Thinking, Able, Bears

To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go.

Winston Churchill
Violence, Nazi, Achieve
"Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War". Book by Patrick J Buchanan, p. 396, 2008.

...to win by one is enough.

Winston Churchill
Winning, Enough

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Dark, Faculty
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.202, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

Winston Churchill
School, Race, Discouraged
"A Roving Commission".

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Winston Churchill
Victory, Defeat
The Second World War vol. 4 (1951)

There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

Winston Churchill
Ideas, Action, Plenty

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