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A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.

Winston Churchill
Wise, Anger, Character

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

Winston Churchill
Spread, Manure, Ifs

The cemetery is full of indispensable people.

Winston Churchill
People, Cemetery, Indispensable

If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

Winston Churchill
Black, Free Market, Ifs
Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Funny, Life

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

Winston Churchill
Russia, Mystery, Riddle
Radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

Winston Churchill
Sheep, Way, Flocks

I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place.

Winston Churchill
Wise, Dog, Taken
To the Peel Commission on a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, 1937.

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Winston Churchill
Running, Trying, Double Standard

If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail.

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

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Change, Inspiring
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill
Motivational, Success, Failure

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Life, Graduation
Speech at Mansion House, London, 10 Nov. 1942.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Moving, Inspiration

You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.

Winston Churchill
Military, Fighting, Odds Against You
Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.312, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Winston Churchill
Respect, Not Giving Up, Law
"Churchill By Himself".

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

Winston Churchill
Political, Term Limits, Politics

Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

Winston Churchill
Opportunity, Dust, People

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.

Winston Churchill
Thinking, Hands, Throat

The arts are essen­tial to any com­plete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus­tain and encour­age them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev­er­ence and delight which are their due.

Winston Churchill
Art, Race, Age
"Churchill: The Statesman as Artist". Book by David Cannadine, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.

Keep calm and carry on.

Winston Churchill
Life, Calm, Keep Calm And Carry On

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston Churchill
Motivational, Truth, Business

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found.

Winston Churchill
Rely Upon, Long, Honor
Winston Churchill's remarks at the Guildhall after the first British naval victory of World War I (September 4, 1914), as quoted in Martin Gilbert "Churchill: A Life" (p. 279), October 15, 1992.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

Winston Churchill
Lying, Needs, Bigger

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

Winston Churchill
Wise, Time, Freedom
Speech in House of Commons, 11 Nov. 1947

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