Quotes from Churchill: The Power of Words

Winston S. Churchill ·  536 pages

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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words


“One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision. Life is a whole, and luck is a whole, and no part of them can be separated from the rest.”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words


“It matters very little whether your judgments of people are true or untrue, and very much whether they are kind or unkind,”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words


“He mobilised the English language and sent it into battle.”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words


“Spare the conquered and confront the proud.”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words



“A man may be poor; he may have nothing at all except his labour to sell; he may be a manual worker for a weekly wage, but in a free commonwealth he must enjoy as good a right as any lord, or prelate, or capitalist in the country to the integrity of his own political convictions.”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words


“Let it never be said that you crept into the crypt, crapped, and crept out again.”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words


“One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words


“The uncertainty and importance of the present reduce the past and future to comparative insignificance, and clear the mind of minor worries. And when all is over, memories remain which few men do not hold precious.”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words


“We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words



“Ah, horrible war, amazing medley of the glorious and the squalid, the pitiful and the sublime, if modern men of light and leading saw your face closer, simple folk would see it hardly ever.”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words


“Churchill used words for different purposes: to argue for moral and political causes, to advocate courses of action in the social, national and international spheres, and to tell the story of his own life and that of Britain and its place in the world.”
― Winston S. Churchill, quote from Churchill: The Power of Words


About the author

Winston S. Churchill
Born place: in Duke of Malborough's Palace in Woodstock, The United Kingdom
Born date November 30, 1874
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