249 Quotes by Winston S. Churchill

Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation ... the utter devotion of the Liberals to sentiment apart from reality ...though free from wickedness or evil design, played a definite part in the unleashing upon the world of horrors and miseries [WWII]

A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

The wars of people will be more terrible than those of kings.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.

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.

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

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