When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. Winston Churchill More Quotes by Winston Churchill More Quotes From Winston Churchill There is no such thing as a good tax. Winston Churchill income-taxtaxes-funnybusiness Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. Winston Churchill persevereconquerperseverance One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement. Winston Churchill would-beplaymen We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium. Winston Churchill growingwingsorder An iron curtain has descended over Europe. Winston Churchill curtainsironeurope Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend. Winston Churchill dependsvirtuecourage The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired. Winston Churchill tiredtestspeople The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short. Winston Churchill blessingdarkscience Preparation is - if not the key to genius - then at least the key to sounding like a genius. Winston Churchill preparationgeniuskeys Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits Winston Churchill time-managementmayopportunity An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it. Winston Churchill wifehusbandtea I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. Winston Churchill eventspoliticaltaken To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real. Winston Churchill realbeing-happyhappiness The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS. Winston Churchill perfectionmayinspirational My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill anniversarylovelife The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. Winston Churchill shieldsmemoriescommitment May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard? Winston Churchill blockcitieswar I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful. Winston Churchill bedfiresleep A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing. Winston Churchill horsemilitarycountry There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty. Winston Churchill obligationdutyspace
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