"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are……" — Winston Churchill
"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash."
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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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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but…
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You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
— Jane Addams
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Justice is an unassailable fortress, built on the brow of a mountain which cannot be overthrown by the violence of…
— Joseph Addison
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Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Back in Chicago, all we cared about was rock 'n' roll and staying out of the army.
— John Belushi
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
— Mayim Bialik
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It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.
— Aesop
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My dad was in the Army. The Army's not great pay, but, you know, we moved from Army patch to…
— James Blunt
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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