It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
Quote by Winston Churchill
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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Winston Churchill Quotes
- Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
- Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. 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.
- 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.
- Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
- 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.
- My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
- All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Best Quotes
- War is a blessing compared with national degradation.
- A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
- Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
- Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.
- Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
- We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.
- Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
- If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
- If there is a man to pray, There is a God to answer.