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All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion.

Winston Churchill
Interesting, Wish, Want

Never give in, never give in, never give in.

Winston Churchill
Graduation, Perseverance, Determination
Speech at Harrow School, Harrow, England, 29 Oct. 1941

Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

Winston Churchill
Sacrifice, Sorrow, Depth
Winston Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.239, A&C Black

If you simply take up the attitude of defending a mistake, there will no hope of improvement.

Winston Churchill
Attitude, Mistake, Improvement

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

Winston Churchill
Math, Logic, Poor
Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I'd rather spend half an hour in the company of a top carpenter, than three hours in the company of an average brain surgeon

Winston Churchill
Average, Brain, Three

There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.

Winston Churchill
Men, Guilt, Important
Winston Churchill (2015). “My African Journey”, p.42, Richard Clay & Sons

We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity.

Winston Churchill
Exciting Adventures, Capacity, Fractions

Baldwin often times stumbles over the truth, but he always picks himself up and hurries on as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill
Truth, Political, Opinion

I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.

Winston Churchill
Machines, Use
Sir Winston Churchill (1961). “The unwritten alliance: speeches 1953-1959”

Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.

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

Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections.

Winston Churchill
Government, House, Politics
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

Winston Churchill
Government, Wish, Politics
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

Winston Churchill
Mother, Father, Government
Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

Winston Churchill
Men, Politics, France
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title "The Sinews of Peace."

Winston Churchill
War, Titles, Addresses
The Sinews of Peace, delivered 5 March 1946 Westminster College, Fulton Missouri

There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

Winston Churchill
Jobs, War, Men

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

Winston Churchill
War, Order, World

How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of the day. However everybody seems delighted - so there is nothing to be said. No plans, no enterprise, no struggle to aid the general cause. Just sit still on the spacious throne and snooze.

Winston Churchill
War, Struggle, Order

God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer.

Winston Churchill
War, World, Months

This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while we sit here, while we go away to dinner or home to bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, and the other is America...Everything else is swept away.

Winston Churchill
War, Home, America

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.

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

...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

Winston Churchill
War, Water, Buckets
Winston Churchill (2005). “The World Crisis, 1911-1918”, p.776, Simon and Schuster

You can always rely on America to do the right thing -- once it has exhausted the alternatives.

Winston Churchill
Funny, Humor, America

The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

Winston Churchill
Civilization, Lessons, Lost

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