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We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm.
-- Winston Churchill


“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the
great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

-- Winston Churchill


[Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the
vices I admire.

-- Winston Churchill


A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill


[Prime Minister Joseph] Chamberlain loves the working man --
he loves to see him work.

-- Winston Churchill


A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
-- Winston Churchill


“I like a man who grins when he fights.”
- Winston Churchill


I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared
for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

-- Winston Churchill


“There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true.”
- Winston Churchill


[Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none
of the vices I admire.

-- Winston Churchill


We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm.

-- Winston Churchill


Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick
himself up and continue on.

-- Winston Churchill, British statesman and writer (1874-1965)


Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war,
you can only be killed once.
-- Winston Churchill


“Never give in. Never give in. Never. Never. Never.”
-- Winston Churchill


“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the
great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
-- Winston Churchill


We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm.
-- Winston Churchill


Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and
the lash.
-- Winston Churchill


Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
-- Winston Churchill


I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism,
he catches it in a very acute form.
-- Winston Churchill, 1903


If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is
make the rubble bounce.
-- Winston Churchill


“MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into
the smallest amount of thoughts.”
-- Winston Churchill


Indomitable in retreat; invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.
-- Winston Churchill, on General Montgomery


I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
-- Winston Churchill


There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true.
-- Winston Churchill


Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other
forms that have been tried from time to time.
-- Winston Churchill


Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other
forms that have been tried from time to time.
-- Winston Churchill


There but for the grace of God, goes God.
-- Winston Churchill, speaking of Sir Stafford Cripps.


When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
-- Winston Churchill, on formal declarations of war


I had a feeling once about mathematics -- that I saw it all. Depth beyond
depth was revealed to me -- the Byss and the Abyss. I saw -- as one might
see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show -- a quantity passing
through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly
why it happened and why tergiversation was inevitable -- but it was after
dinner and I let it go.
-- Winston Churchill


There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true.
-- Winston Churchill