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Winston Churchill Quotes (510 quotes)

“Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.”
―Winston Churchill

“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”
―Winston Churchill

“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”
―Winston Churchill

“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”
―Winston Churchill

“Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.”
―Winston Churchill

“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”
―Winston Churchill

Source/Notes:
Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait (1954 edition)

“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.”
―Winston Churchill

Source/Notes:
The Churchill wit (1965 edition)

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
―Winston Churchill

Source/Notes:
The River War (2004 edition), Kessinger Publishing - ISBN: 9781419180712

“Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.”
―Winston Churchill

Source/Notes:
As quoted in: The Reader's Digest, Volume 76 (1960), p. 238

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
―Winston Churchill

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
―Winston Churchill

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
―Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill

Born: November 30, 1874

Died: January 24, 1965 (aged 90)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Statesman

Bio: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, he served as Prime Minister twice.

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