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A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

Winston Churchill
Hopeful, Prophet, Disposition
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.

Winston Churchill
Sorry, War, Heart
"Mr. Churchill's Reply". The Times, November 7, 1938.

The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form.

Winston Churchill
Land, America, United States
Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From September 11, 1943 to August 16, 1945”

I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

Winston Churchill
Kings, Order, Empires
Speech at Lord Mayor's luncheon, London, 10 Nov. 1942

Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill
Writing, Tasks, Enthusiasm

We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

Winston Churchill
Fighting, Fields, Surrender

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. [Referring to the theory that over-production caused the Depression]

Winston Churchill
Theory, Curse, Referring

A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

Winston Churchill
Sleep, Men, Dawn

Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley.

Winston Churchill
War, Dark, Thinking
Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

When Iraq becomes strong enough in our opinion to stand alone, we shall be in a position to state that our task has been fulfilled, and that Iraq is an independent sovereign state. But this cannot be said while we are forced year after year to spend very large sums of money on helping the Iraqi government to defend itself and maintain order.

Winston Churchill
Strong, Independent, Government

In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

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

Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die.

Winston Churchill
Fun, Trying, Done
Dame Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill (1990). “Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half.

Winston Churchill
War, Men, Wife
"Churchill by Himself". Book by Richard Langworth, p. 511, 2008.

I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice.

Winston Churchill
Country, Thinking, Important
"Inside Right: A Study of Conservatism". Book by Ian Gilmour, p. 134, 1977.

And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.

Winston Churchill
Hatred, Pick Me Up, Genuine

It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds.

Winston Churchill
Work, Mean, Mind
Sir Winston Churchill (1932). “Amid these storms: thoughts and adventures”

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.

Winston Churchill
Cities, Sake, Moments
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

The Government of India had imprisoned Mr. Gandhi and they had been sitting outside his cell door begging him to help them out of their difficulties.

Winston Churchill
Government, Doors, Cells

[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.

Winston Churchill
Men, Rich, Beast
Winston Churchill (1959). “Great Contemporaries”

There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back.

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

If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.

Winston Churchill
Struggle, Passion, Italian
Speech in Rome, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 20, 1927.

One would have thought that if there was one cause in the world which the Conservative party would have hastened to defend, it would be the cause of the British Empire in India ... Our fight is hard. It will also be long ... But win or lose, we must do our duty. If the British people are to lose their Indian Empire, they shall do so with their eyes open.

Winston Churchill
Party, Eye, Fighting

I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of.

Winston Churchill
Strong, War, Honest Woman
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Real, Mistake
Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Churchill By Himself”, p.913, RosettaBooks

I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

Winston Churchill
Depression, Water, Bipolar

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