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Quotes by Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Continuous efforts-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!

We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air 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 halls. We shall never surrender.

Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

The maxim Nothing avails but perfection may be spelled Paralysis.

Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom justice honor duty mercy hope.

Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

If you have an important point to make dont 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!

One ought never to turn ones back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

It is no use saying we are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

It is no use saying we are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Continuous effort-not strength or intelligence-is the key to unlocking our potential.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.