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There are bitter weeds in England.

There are bitter weeds in England.

Winston Churchill
Weed, England, Bitter
Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.103, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?

Winston Churchill
Simple, Men, Rights

The struggle which is now beginning between the Zionist and Bolshevik Jews is little less than a struggle for the soul of the Jewish people.

Winston Churchill
Struggle, People, Soul

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Winston Churchill
Drinking, Wine, Knowing

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

Winston Churchill
War, Skating, Giants
Winston S. Churchill (2010). “Triumph and Tragedy: The Second World War”, p.430, RosettaBooks

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Winston Churchill
Army, Thinking, Church

Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

Winston Churchill
Men, Modesty, Modest

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill
Pregnancy, Inspiration, Land

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

Winston Churchill
Hands, Games, Play

There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

Winston Churchill
Girl, Wall, Humorous
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Winston Churchill
Country, Fire, Political

I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

Winston Churchill
Military, Writing, Bears

On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible.

Winston Churchill
Success, Dream, Science
"Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963" by Robert Rhodes James, Vol. 1, p. 7210, 1974.

Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.

Winston Churchill
Courage, Jobs, Giving
Speech on radio, 9 Feb. 1941, in Complete Speeches (1974) vol. 6, p. 6350

The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

Winston Churchill
Suffering, Christianity, Inevitable

If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

Winston Churchill
Wife, Poison, My Wife

Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one.

Winston Churchill
Class, Two, Effort

If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.

Winston Churchill
Witty, Jobs, Men

I'm so bored with it all.

Winston Churchill
Bored, Last Words, So Bored
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

Winston Churchill
Oil, Political, Band

We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance.

Winston Churchill
Reflection, Oil, Doubt

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

Winston Churchill
Skills, Inevitable, Know How

The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks.

Winston Churchill
War, Gun, Fire
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Hinge of Fate”, p.528, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

Winston Churchill
War, Used, Magnificent
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

Winston Churchill
Writing, Simplicity, Language

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