A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up

Quote by Winston Churchill

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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do...

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do...

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain...

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain...

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry...

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry...

~Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to...

~Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to...

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to...

My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to...

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.

Without courage all virtues lose their meaning.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to...

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to...

Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were...

Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!' And if you were...

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and...

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and...

A joke is a very serious thing

A joke is a very serious thing

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to...

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to...