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[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

[Should Britain fail, then the entire world would] sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister ... by the lights of perverted science.

Winston Churchill
Dark, Science, Light

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.

Winston Churchill
Military, Fate, Winning

A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow.

Winston Churchill
Shadow, Glitter, Reputation
Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail.

Winston Churchill
Past, Destiny, Preparation
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.325, Da Capo Press

Anyone who is not a liberal in his youth has no heart. Anyone who remains so as he matures has no brain!

Winston Churchill
Heart, Brain, Youth

The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.

Winston Churchill
Time, Moving, Learning
A radio speech broadcast from London to America on receiving the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws of the University of Rochester, June 16, 1941.

The English never draw a line without blurring it.

Winston Churchill
Witty, Inspiration, Lines
Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Issues, Decision
Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them.

Winston Churchill
Evil, Speech, Foolish
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.

Winston Churchill
Victory, Finals, Defeat

Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful.

Winston Churchill
Praise, Deceitful, Censure

The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility.

Winston Churchill
Christian, War, Struggle
"The World Crisis, Volume I: 1911-1914". Book by Winston Churchill, 1923.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Winston Churchill
Eye, Ideas, Judgement
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist.

Winston Churchill
Dream, Imagination, Stronger
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it.

Winston Churchill
Asks
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones.

Winston Churchill
Real, Might, Action
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

Time and the Ocean and some guiding star and High Cabal have made us what we are.

Winston Churchill
Stars, Ocean, Made

Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

Winston Churchill
Education, Firsts, Characteristics
"The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill".

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.

Winston Churchill
Ambition, Ambitious, Able
Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The Grand Alliance”

I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

Winston Churchill
America, Criticism, Tables
"Churchill By Himself" by Ed. Langworth, p. 128, 2008.

Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family, a link which, spanning the oceans, brings the continents into their true relation and will prevent in future generations any growth of division between the proud and the happy nations of Europe and the great countries which have come into existence in the New World.

Winston Churchill
Country, Ocean, Hands
Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come.

Winston Churchill
Hope, Heart, Night
Winston Churchill (1953). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve.

Winston Churchill
Strong, Army, Two
Sir Winston Churchill, Andrew Scotland (1965). “Churchill on men and events: a selection from "Thoughts and adventures" and "Great contemporaries"”

If you are going to go through hell, keep going

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

Winston Churchill
Reality, Genuine Love, Evil

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