Winston Churchill Quotes About Time
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I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
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I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.
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Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs.
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The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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Unpunctuality is a vile habit.
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Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
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It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time.
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
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Winston Churchill
- Born: November 30, 1874
- Died: January 24, 1965
- Occupation: Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom