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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

Winston Churchill
Sad, Witty, Powerful
Winston Churchill (1959). “Memoirs of the Second World War: An Abridgement of the Six Volumes of the Second World War”

The one who cannot see that on Earth a big endeavor is taking place, an important plan, on which realization we are allowed to collaborate as faithful servants, certainly has to be blind.

Winston Churchill
Faithful Servants, Important, Realization

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Winston Churchill
Sad, Wealth, Consumerism
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?

Winston Churchill
Mean, Flying, Doe
"How Churchill chased flying saucers" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2001.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

Winston Churchill
Path, Improvement, Feels
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.340, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse.

Winston Churchill
Horse, War, Science
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward... The stronger the advocate of monarchical principle a man may be, the more zealously he must now endeavor to fortify the Throne and to give to His Majesty's successor that strength which can only come from the love of a united nation and Empire.

Winston Churchill
Adversity, Men, Giving

I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.

Winston Churchill
Adversity, Broken, Darkness

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

Winston Churchill
Believe, Data, Generations
Sir Winston Churchill (1951). “A Roving Commission”

I am too busy. I have not time for worry.

Winston Churchill
Worry, Busy, Too Busy

You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears.

Winston Churchill
Soldier, Together, May
Quoted in Harold Macmillan, The Blast of War: 1939 - 45 (1968) (entry for 16 Nov. 1943)

These are great days.

Winston Churchill
Shining, Great Day
Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .

Winston Churchill
War, Men, Civilization

By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat.

Winston Churchill
Clever, Latin, Learning
My Early Life ch. 2 (1930)

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Winston Churchill
Happiness, Party, Leave Me Alone

It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them.

Winston Churchill
Military, Army, Inspire

We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

Winston Churchill
Home, Shapes, Interior Design

The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Winston Churchill
Air, Enemy, Defense
"The World Crisis". Volume I,

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Winston Churchill
Respect, Unique, People
Hansard 10 June 1941, col. 152

Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.

Winston Churchill
Law, Ethics, Morality

We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general.

Winston Churchill
Military, War, May
Winston Churchill (1952). “War Speeches: From June 25, 1941 to September 6, 1943”

The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

Winston Churchill
Sea, People, Buckets
Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1946). “Victory: war speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...”

Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth.

Winston Churchill
Elderly, Views, People
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

Winston Churchill
Innovation, Logic, Rationality
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

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

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