"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's……" — Winston Churchill
"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, so do my and the lash."
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Winston Churchill
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1,057 Quotes by Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill has 1,057 quotes on this site.
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the…
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You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and…
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Never, never, never give up.
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
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The powered flight took a total of about eight and a half minutes. It seemed to me it had gone…
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The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
— Winston Churchill
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The Church's foundation is unshakable and firm against the assaults of the raging sea. Waves lash at the Church but…
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One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little…
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And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into…
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Don’t win loyalty, just obedience, and only while the lash is in the room.
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So it happened at last: I was about to become a thief, a cheap milk-stealer. Here was your lash-in-the-pen genius,…
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The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.
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But as well may you, when urging a man up-hill with a heavy load upon his back, and with your…
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England is, after all, the land where children were beaten, wives and babies bashed, football hooligans crunch, and Miss Whip…
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