Sir Winston Churchill Quotations

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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not drive on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Writing]

History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [History]

Golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Golf]

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Education]

On the outcome of World War II: It was the nation and the race dwelling all 'round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the lion's roar. I also hope that I sometimes suggested to the lion the right place to use his claws.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Luck]

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [People] [Vices]

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [People]

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Perspective]

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.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [War]

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [War]

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Conformity]

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Future]

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Success]

Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [America]

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Attitude]

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Attitude]

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Patriotism]

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Alcohol]

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Speaking] [Kindness]

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
	- Sir Winston Churchill	more quotations on [Speaking]

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