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Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.

Winston Churchill
Dream, Military, Reality

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

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Winston Churchill
Determination, Military, War
Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Winston Churchill
Military, Worry, Action

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

Winston Churchill
Inspirational, Military, Law
Sir Winston Churchill, Jack Fishman (1974). “If I lived my life again”, W.H. Allen

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

Winston Churchill
Military, Giving, Roaring

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston Churchill
Memorial Day, Military, War
Speech in House of Commons, 20 Aug. 1940

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

Winston Churchill
Time, Military, Oats

If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts.

Winston Churchill
Strong, Military, War

They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.

Winston Churchill
Military, Lasts, Crocodiles

Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

Winston Churchill
Military, Victory, Retreat
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Winston Churchill
Being Strong, Military, Character
Winston Churchill, Robert Rhodes James (1980). “Churchill speaks: Winston S. Churchill in peace and war : collected speeches, 1897-1963”, Atheneum

Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Winston Churchill
Peace, Military, War
Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.227, Simon and Schuster

There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them

Winston Churchill
Military, Fighting, Allies
Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

In defeat, unbeatable; in victor, unbearable

Winston Churchill
Military, Unbearable, Defeat

In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action

Winston Churchill
Military, Simple, Principles

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill
Military, Book, Teaching
My Early Life ch. 9 (1930)

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Winston Churchill
Military, Drinking, Taken
In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

Give us the tools, and we will finish the job

Winston Churchill
Leadership, Jobs, Military
Radio broadcast, 9 Feb. 1941

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Winston Churchill
Military, Air, Force
Winston S. Churchill (2010). “The Gathering Storm: The Second World War”, p.562, RosettaBooks

There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.

Winston Churchill
Military, Safety, Trying
Sir Winston Churchill (1942). “The Unrelenting Struggle: War Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill ...”

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.

Winston Churchill
Art, Military, Reading
Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world.

Winston Churchill
Military, Marine, World

I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.

Winston Churchill
Military, Long, Speech
Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Winston Churchill
Inspiring, Military, Giving

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