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This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.

This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.

Winston Churchill
War, Dark, Age
Winston Churchill (2012). “Churchill: The Power of Words”, p.350, Da Capo Press

We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

Winston Churchill
Ashes, London, Ruins
Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old.

Winston Churchill
Champion, Comfort, World
Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.417, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly.

Winston Churchill
Mother, Stars, Princess
Winston Churchill (1965). “A Man of Destiny: Winston S. Churchill”

We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.

Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

Winston Churchill
Beautiful, Clever, Fancy
Winston Churchill (1963). “The Yankee Marlborough”

I am not a bit afraid of Siegfried Sassoon. That man can think. I am afraid only of people who cannot think.

Winston Churchill
Men, Thinking, People

Dear citizen, if you were my love, I'd stole your money!' Admin if you were my love, I would ask you for divorce and spousal support!

Winston Churchill
Divorce, Support, Citizens

The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose.

Winston Churchill
Men, Purpose, Way
Sir Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill (1965). “Great destiny: sixty years of the memorable events in the life of the man of the century recounted in his own incomparable words”

I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven.

Winston Churchill
Organization, World, Way
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

Go into the sunshine and be happy with what you see.

Winston Churchill
Sunshine

The person must be blind, indeed, who can not see, that here on earth a great project, a great plan, is executed, may work on the realization of which we participate as faithful servants.

Winston Churchill
Faithful Servants, Realization, Earth

I love learning, but hate being taught.

Winston Churchill
Hate, Taught

Are you an action-oriented, take-charge person interested in exciting new challenges? As director of a major public-sector organization, you will manage a large armed division and interface with other senior executives in a team-oriented, multinational initiative in the global marketplace. Successful candidate will have above-average oral-presentation skills

Winston Churchill
Senior, Team, Successful

Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

Winston Churchill
Thinking, Civilisation, Property
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.

Winston Churchill
Strong, War, Winning

Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.

Winston Churchill
Thinking, Keys, Rooms

Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.

Winston Churchill
Dark, Government, Progress

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Winston Churchill
Fear, Sometimes, Modern
Winston Churchill (1990). “A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The birth of Britain”

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

Winston Churchill
Dwelling

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

Winston Churchill
Frozen, Hammered, Peg
Winston Churchill (1955). “The World Crisis”

Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

Winston Churchill
War, Records, Conflict
Winston Churchill (1958). “A History of the English-speaking Peoples: The Great democracies”

No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.

Winston Churchill
Mistress, President, Lovers
"Books of the times" by John Gross. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1985.

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.

Winston Churchill
Opportunity, Men, Dust

This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors

Winston Churchill
War, Ambition, Names
Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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