Winston Churchill Quotes, Peace Quotes, War Quotes

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

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If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.

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

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How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.

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We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation.

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But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?

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What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?

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If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

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When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.

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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.

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By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

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An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters.

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The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign.

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Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.

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The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

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The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

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[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

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The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

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