Winston Churchill Quotes, Writing Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

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Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.

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Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.

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This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting.

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Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.

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One time he was asked if he believed in an afterlife. After a moment's hesitation he said no, that he thought there was only "some kind of velvety cool blackness," adding then: "Of course, I admit I may be wrong. It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."

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The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

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I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

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

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Victory is only wrested by running risks.

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Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!

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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

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In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

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Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally.

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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

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You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great.

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The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be.

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Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil.

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