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If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.

If you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them.

Winston Churchill
Mean, Doe, Ifs

Apt analogies are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.

Winston Churchill
Analogies, Weapons, Formidable

One must regard the hyphen as a blemish to be avoided wherever possible.

Winston Churchill
Hyphens, Regard, Avoided

[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

Winston Churchill
War, Years, Mind

There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice.

Winston Churchill
Men, Justice, Liberty
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

Winston Churchill
Foundation, Inheritance, May
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.444, Da Capo Press

The reservist is twice the citizen.

Winston Churchill
Citizens

Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

Winston Churchill
Military, Air, Force
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you're going to walk through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill
Hell, Walks, Ifs

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Winston Churchill
Greatness, Men, Good Times

Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?

Winston Churchill
Stars, Healthy, Together
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life." He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he "slept in Christ." Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds.

Winston Churchill
Kings, Years, Two
Winston Churchill (2004). “A History of the English Speaking Peoples 01. The Birth of Britain.”

One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.

Winston Churchill
Morning, Doors, Democracy

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

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

Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

Winston Churchill
Clever, Drunk, Ugly

It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.

Winston Churchill
Hate, Years, Fearless
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.354, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.

Winston Churchill
Horse, Race, Navy
Sir Winston Churchill (1963). “The world crisis”

I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.

Winston Churchill
Ambition, Play, Noble

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

Winston Churchill
Time, Art, Reality
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Winston Churchill
Energy, World, Saving
Sir Winston Churchill (1950). “The Grand Alliance”, p.638, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.

Winston Churchill
Wine, Government, Civilization

Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism.

Winston Churchill
Islands, Years, Dying
Winston Churchill (1995). “Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples”, Barnes & Noble

All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.

Winston Churchill
War, Party, Technique
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

No sky is heavy if the heart be light

Winston Churchill
Heart, Light, Sky

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