"Woe betide the leaders now perched on their……" — Winston Churchill
"Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields."
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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 Battlefields Quotes
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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet,…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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As long as there are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields. A vegetarian diet is the acid test of humanitarianism.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which…
— Carl Sagan
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Your nafs (soul/desires) is your first battlefield. If you are victorious over it, then you will find the other battlefields…
— Hassan al-Banna
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I was in the midst of it all - saw war where war is worst - not on the battlefields,…
— Walt Whitman
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must…
— Randy Neugebauer
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The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect…
— Henry Waxman
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Companies aren’t families. They’re battlefields in a civil war. Yet despite this capacity for internecine warfare, most companies roll along…
— Charles Duhigg
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If the Europeans truly wish to improve their NATO contribution they can show it simply enough. They can establish professional…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Finally, if you will permit me, I'd like to make a comment which in my mind, is indicative, perhaps, of…
— Nile Kinnick
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There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.
— Alfred M. Gray
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