Sir Winston Churchill quotes

The best method of acquiring flexibility is to have three or four plans for all the probable
contingencies all worked out with the utmost detail.
Sir Winston Churchill

Material progress, however magnificent, will never accomplish the mission of mankind.
Sir Winston Churchill

It was my ambition all my life to be master of the spoken word.
Sir Winston Churchill

It is not possibe to draw a hard-and-fast line between individualism and collectivism. You
cannot draw it either in theory or in practice. No man can be a collectivist alone or an
individualist alone. He must be both an individualist and a collectivist. Collectively we light our
streets and supply ourselves with water. But we do not make love collectively and the ladies
do not marry us collectively.
Sir Winston Churchill

It seems to me the tide of destiny is moving steadily in our favor, though the voyage will be
long and rough.
Sir Winston Churchill

When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was, "Still?"
Sir Winston Churchill

Large views always triumph over small ideas.
Sir Winston Churchill

All men are equal and all distinctions between them are unhealthy and undemocratic.
Sir Winston Churchill

It is no use in saying "We are doing our best." You have to succeed in doing what is
necessary.
Sir Winston Churchill

- Winston, you're drunk!
- Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.
Bessie Braddock, Sir Winston Churchill

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom not a trade; character not technicalities.
Sir Winston Churchill

Where there is a great deal of free speech, there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
Sir Winston Churchill

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Sir Winston Churchill

Some see private enterprise as a predatory animal to be shot, others look on it as a cow to be
milked but a few see it as a sturdy horse pulling a wagon.
Sir Winston Churchill

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Sir Winston Churchill

If the present tries to sit in judgement of the past, it will lose the future.
Sir Winston Churchill 

Surely there was never an army which advanced like the army of science.
Sir Winston Churchill 

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said...
that he had a lot of issues in his life, most of which never happened.
Sir Winston Churchill

I am going to give a long speech today. I haven't had time to prepare a short one.
Sir Winston Churchill

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