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Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.

Winston Churchill
Science, Filth, Insult
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)

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.

Winston Churchill
Powerful, Fluidity, Undecided
Speech in House of Commons, 12 Nov. 1936

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Winston Churchill
Military, Battle, Demand
"Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words".

My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.

Winston Churchill
Hands, Silent, Veto
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.141, Da Capo Press

The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.

Winston Churchill
Powerful, War, Tired

If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.

Winston Churchill
Needs, Matter, Ifs

Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

Winston Churchill
Servant, Civil Servants

A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

Winston Churchill
Men, Way, Interviews

The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure.

Winston Churchill
Language, Endure, Seats

One ought to be just before one is generous

Winston Churchill
Love, Life, Family
Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.

Winston Churchill
Christian, Real, Tired

There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.

Winston Churchill
Revenge, Blessed, Past
Address on Unified Cooperation in Europe, delivered 19 September 1946, Zurich, Switzerland

Unpunctuality is a vile habit.

Winston Churchill
Time, Habit
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

Even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill
Fool, Sometimes

Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

Winston Churchill
Philosophy, Perfect, Stage
Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

How often in life must one be content with what one can get!

Winston Churchill
Philosophy
Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nothing should be done for spite's sake.

Winston Churchill
Philosophy, Done, Sake
Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.628, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

Winston Churchill
Philosophy
Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

Winston Churchill
Politics, Imperialism, Form
Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Giving, Never Give In

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

Winston Churchill
Quitting, Should, Ready

I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

Winston Churchill
Country, Fighting, Conquer

How I hated schools, and what a life of anxiety I lived there. I counted the hours to the end of every term, when I should return home.

Winston Churchill
Educational, Home, School

No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.

Winston Churchill
Military, Enemy, Matter

Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar.

Winston Churchill
Military, Men, Battle
Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour, BBC Radio Broadcast 19 May 1940

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