1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill – [Fanatics and Fanaticism]


All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Winston Churchill – [Mistakes]


All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill – [Simplicity]


Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill – [Nuclear Age]


Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
Winston Churchill – [Animals]


An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile — hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill – [Compromise]


Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
Winston Churchill – [Politicians and Politics]


Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill – [Courage]


Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
Winston Churchill – [Courage]


Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill – [Courage]


Danger — if you meet it promptly and without flinching — you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill – [Danger]


Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
Winston Churchill – [Dictators and Dictatorship]


Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Winston Churchill – [Difficulties]


Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill – [Service]


Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
Winston Churchill – [Army and Navy]


Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston Churchill – [Words]


For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill – [History and Historians]


From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill – [Grammar]


Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
Winston Churchill – [Golf]


Great and good are seldom the same man.
Winston Churchill – [Greatness]

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