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The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw

The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

Winston Churchill
Morning, Sleep, Night
Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Winston Churchill
Army, Cities, Ashes
Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

Americans are a wonderful people: They will always do the right thing--after exhausting every other possible alternative.

Winston Churchill
People, Alternatives, Wonderful

My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

Winston Churchill
Mom, Mother, Stars
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment.

Winston Churchill
Country, Party, Years
"Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches". Book by Robert Rhodes James, vol. 8, p. 8,326, 1974.

The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

Winston Churchill
Military, War, Mean

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

Winston Churchill
Christmas, Laughter, Children
Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The Grand Alliance”

It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.

Winston Churchill
Brother, Children, War
Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

Winston Churchill
Tyrants, Balance, Fool
Randolph Spencer Churchill, Winston Churchill, Martin Gilbert (1983). “Winston S. Churchill: Companion Vol. V, Part Three, the Coming of War 1936-1939”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man.

Winston Churchill
Men, Hobbies, Firsts
Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

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

The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.

Winston Churchill
War, Curves, Achievement

What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

Winston Churchill
Life, Humanity, Promise
"Unemployment". Winston Churchill's speech at Kinnaird Hall in Dundee, Scotland (October 10, 1908), as quoted in Winston Churchill "Liberalism and the Social Problem" (p. 87), 1909.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

Winston Churchill
Character, Firsts, Duty
Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

Winston Churchill
Beautiful, Flower, Victory

It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it.

Winston Churchill
Believe, Done, Half
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Military, Preparation
"My Early Life: 1874-1904".

May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?

Winston Churchill
Block, War, Cities
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.220, Da Capo Press

It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive.

Winston Churchill
Military, Communication, Land
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

America, can always be counted upon to do the right thing in the end, having first exhausted the available alternatives.

Winston Churchill
America, Alternatives, Firsts

Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts.

Winston Churchill
Peace, Fear, Heart
Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

Winston Churchill
Men, Healthy, Looks

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Country, Running
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts.

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

Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence.

Winston Churchill
Military, Air, Independence
Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Arms and the Covenant”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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