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It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

Winston Churchill
Science, Hydrogen Bomb, Bombs

The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.

Winston Churchill
Education, Country, Privilege
Winston Churchill (1950). “Europe Unite: Speeches 1947 and 1948”, London, Cassell

It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It is difficult to explain this to those who do not know our ways. They cannot easily be made to understand why we consider that the intensity, passion, intimacy, informality and spontaneity of our Debates constitute the personality of the House of Commons and endow it at once with its focus and its strength.

Winston Churchill
Country, Passion, Two
"Motion for Address in Reply". Speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. October 24, 1950.

I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.

Winston Churchill
Thinking, Habit, Break
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest.

Winston Churchill
Chinese, Might, Reincarnation
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

Writing a book is an adventure.

Winston Churchill
Book, Writing, Adventure
Winston Churchill (1965). “Winston Churchill, His Wit and Wisdom: Selections from His Works and Speeches”

The United States is like a gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lit under it, there's no limit to the power it can generate.

Winston Churchill
Fire, United States, Politics

Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian nationalism.

Winston Churchill
Keys, Unions, Riddle

Oh, what is the matter with poor Puggy-Wug? Pet him and kiss him and give him a hug. Run and fetch him a suitable drug. Wrap him up tenderly all in a rug. That is the way to cure Puggy-Wug.

Winston Churchill
Friendship, Running, Dog

I'd rather be right than consistent.

Winston Churchill
Consistent

Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

Winston Churchill
Mind, Five, Millions

You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

Winston Churchill
War, Nice, Being Nice

We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

Winston Churchill
Cutting, Filled Up, House
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

Without ships, we cannot live.

Winston Churchill
War, World, Ships

We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations

Winston Churchill
War, Victory, World
Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

Winston Churchill
Nations

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Winston Churchill
Europe, Birmingham, Bores

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Winston Churchill
Military, Army, Air

I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go.

Winston Churchill
Math, Feelings, Let It Go
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.45, Simon and Schuster

Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men.

Winston Churchill
Business, Men, Advertising

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

Winston Churchill
Running, Adversity, Safe

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

Winston Churchill
Education, Book, Mean

I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

Winston Churchill
Education, Believe, Flower
Sir Winston Churchill (1961). “The unwritten alliance: speeches 1953-1959”

It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind.

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

Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston Churchill
Being Strong, Veterans Day, Stay Strong
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.395, Da Capo Press

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