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Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

Winston Churchill
Drinking, Beer, Wife

The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind.

Winston Churchill
Horse, Progress, Milestone
Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

I have always had a curious nature; I enjoy learning, but I dislike being taught.

Winston Churchill
Curiosity, Taught, Curious

We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium.

Winston Churchill
Order, Wings, Growing
Winston Churchill (1942). “Thoughts and Adventures”

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

Winston Churchill
Heart, Good Luck, Race
Speech at Westminster Hall, London, 30 Nov. 1954

There is no such thing as a good tax.

Winston Churchill
Business, Taxes Funny, Income Tax

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

Winston Churchill
Men, Play, Would Be
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Winston Churchill
Taken, Political, Events
Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Onwards to Victory”, p.19, RosettaBooks

Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

Winston Churchill
Tired, People, Significant

One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.

Winston Churchill
Reflection, Orange, Keys
Winston Churchill (2009). “Thoughts and Adventures: Churchill Reflects on Spies, Cartoons, Flying, and the Future”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension.

Winston Churchill
Science, Men, Comprehension
Speech at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 31 March (1949)

At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender.

Winston Churchill
Political, Soul, Depth
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems.

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

Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall.

Winston Churchill
Stars, Night, Race
Arm Yourselves and Be Ye Men of Valour, BBC Radio Broadcast 19 May 1940

The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.

Winston Churchill
Light, Land, Evil
Winston Churchill (1969). “History of the English Speaking Peoples: Based on the Text of 'A History of the English-speaking Peoples' by Sir Winston Churchill”

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Winston Churchill
War, Iron, History
Address at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo., 5 Mar. 1946.

The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill
Gratitude, War, Home
Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

Winston Churchill
Why Not, Made, Ready
Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.618, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

Winston Churchill
Soul, Deathless

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

Winston Churchill
Common Sense, Imagination, Enemy
Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.293, Simon and Schuster

Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

Winston Churchill
Law, Safety, Aviation

It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

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

There is a treasure in the heart of every man if you can only find it

Winston Churchill
Heart, Men, Treasure

You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

Winston Churchill
Fall, Sacrifice, Confusion
Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.672, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.

Winston Churchill
Mean, Progress, This Generation
Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “The Dawn of Liberation”, p.87, RosettaBooks

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