"The statesman who yields to war fever...is no……" — Winston Churchill
"The statesman who yields to war fever...is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
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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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More Events Quotes
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
— Richard Bach
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do…
— Michelle Bachelet
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
— Nicholson Baker
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the…
— Russell Baker
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also…
— Javier Bardem
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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