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Winston Churchill
British
Statesman
Born:
Nov 30
,
1874
Died:
Jan 24
,
1965
Am
Great
Politics
War
Will
You
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What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
Winston Churchill
People
World
Will
Lesson
Think
Possible
Kind
Shall
Never
Never Forget
Until
Been
Cease
Persevere
Forget
Taught
Which
Against
Them
Realize
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill
Good
Man
Books
A Good Thing
Good Thing
Read
Uneducated
Quotations
Thing
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
Winston Churchill
War
Will
Giants
Over
Begin
Wars
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
Winston Churchill
Day
Slow
Single
Build
Destroy
Thoughtless
Single Day
Years
Laborious
Task
May
Act
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.
Winston Churchill
Smile
War
You
Game
Way
Out
Till
Grin
Keep
Played
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
World
Half
Worst
Lies
About
True
Terrible
Lot
Going
Them
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston Churchill
Great
Crime
Daring
Excel
Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill
World
Old
Saving
Divert
New
Left
New World
Energies
Your
Plans
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.
Winston Churchill
War
Good
Peace
Win
Those
Would
Rarely
Could
Never
Well
Make
Won
Who
I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
Winston Churchill
Remarks
Impromptu
Just
Preparing
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill
You
Man
Nothing
Costs
Polite
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
Winston Churchill
War
You
Man
Prisoner
Tries
Fails
Him
Ask
Then
Who
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Winston Churchill
Words
Eating
Indigestion
Never
Developed
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Winston Churchill
War
Catalogue
Mainly
Blunders
I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill
Brilliant
Sorry
Pretend
Impartial
About
Browns
Colours
Genuinely
Am
Cannot
Poor
Rejoice
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
Democracy
Prison
Nothing
Abhorrent
Unpopular
More
Civilization
He
Him
Because
Test
Than
Person
Really
Keep
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
Winston Churchill
Patriotism
Fight
Country
Resolve
Once
Rightly
Only
Cast
Had
Failed
Been
Any
Aside
Should
Moment
Express
Conquer
Servant
Her
If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill
You
Rubble
Bounce
Make
Arms
Arms Race
Go
Going
Race
Nuclear
Nuclear Arms
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.
Winston Churchill
Together
Wife
Three
Breakfast
Tried
Disagreeable
Had
Years
Times
Stop
Last
Two
It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill
Lion
Heart
Nation
Luck
Give
Had
Roar
Globe
Dwelling
Race
Round
I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
Winston Churchill
Business
Those
Fact
Am
In Fact
Anything
Prod
Certainly
Who
Need
These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
Great
Dark
Country
Our
Days
Greatest
Lived
Ever
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill
Drinking
First
Meeting
Franklin
Franklin Roosevelt
Bottle
Opening
Like
Knowing
Him
Roosevelt
Your
Champagne
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.
Winston Churchill
Politics
War
Myself
Writing
Politicians
Painting
Entirely
More
Shall
Never
Over
Am
Going
Confine
Anything
Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston Churchill
Battles
General
More
He
Demands
Greater
Won
Maneuver
Less
Slaughter
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
Winston Churchill
Better
Prophesy
Taken
Policy
Because
Always
Beforehand
After
Place
Much
Avoid
Event
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