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There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed.

Winston Churchill
Philosophy, Goes On, World
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

Winston Churchill
Caring, Planning, Moments

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

Winston Churchill
Military, Government, Democracy

It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.

Winston Churchill
Guarantees, Deserve

At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

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

The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]

Winston Churchill
People, Diplomatic Relations, Republic
"Foreign Affairs". In the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. November 17, 1949.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

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

We must be united, we must be undaunted, we must be inflexible. Our qualities and deeds must burn and glow through the gloom oEurope until they become the veritable beacon oits salvation.

Winston Churchill
Men, Quality, Deeds

It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift.

Winston Churchill
Hope, Spring, Mistake
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.89, Da Capo Press

He [President Franklin D. Roosevelt] died in harness, and we may well say in battle harness, like his soldiers, sailors and airmen who died side by side with ours and carrying out their tasks to the end all over the world. What an enviable death was his.

Winston Churchill
Death, Soldier, Battle

I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

Winston Churchill
Mean, Eye, Men
Winston Churchill's statement as President of the Air Council in War Office Departmental Minute (the original document is in the collection of Churchill Papers 16/16 at the Churchill Archives Centre in Cambridge), May 12, 1919.

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

Winston Churchill
Military, People, Drunk
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean.

Winston Churchill
Summer, War, Ocean
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

Winston Churchill
Fear, Feelings, Killing
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

Winston Churchill
America, Accountability, Democracy

When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

Winston Churchill
Ideas, Office, Ordinary
Winston Churchill (1948). “The Second World War: The Grand Alliance”

Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see.

Winston Churchill
Happiness, Art, Wonderful
Winston Churchill (1942). “Thoughts and Adventures”

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

Winston Churchill
Argument, Parliament, Substitutes
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston Churchill
War, Men, Japan
"The Second World War, Volume III : The Grand Alliance". Book by Winston S. Churchill, chapter 32, 1950.

It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

Winston Churchill
Bird, Doe, Nests

I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime.

Winston Churchill
Thinking, Needs, Want
Sir Winston Churchill (1965). “The Churchill Wit”

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

Winston Churchill
Food, Years, Two
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory.

Winston Churchill
Victory, Answers, Defeat
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

The United States abd usually be reiled on to do the right thing, but only after they have tried all the other alternatives.

Winston Churchill
Politics, United States, Alternatives

Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

Winston Churchill
Lying, Oil, Safety

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