Poet Winston Churchill

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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
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.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

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