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Own Quotes by Winston Churchill
- When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for…
- When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
- No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account.
- You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe…
- It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that…
- I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.
- Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends.
- We are with Europe but not of it. We are linked, not combined. We are interested and associated, not absorbed. And should European statesmen address…
- If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his…
- We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task.…
- I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten…
- I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.
- One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.
- Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed…
- No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.
- If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the…
- Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince…
- You create your own universe as you go along.
- Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength;…
- A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious…
- As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
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