3 December 2020 Winston Churchill A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
3 December 2020 Winston Churchill Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
