Quotes of Sir Winston Churchill - somelinesforyou

“ I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ 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 other forms that have been tried from time to time. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ The price of greatness is responsibility. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ 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

“ I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ The price of greatness is responsibility. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril; but the new view must come, the world must roll forward. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

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

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ 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

“ 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

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

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ Success is ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill

“ To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour. ”

- Sir Winston Churchill
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