We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
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Winston Churchill
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About Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was a British statesman, military officer, and writer who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. For some 62 of the years between 1900 and 1964, he was a member of Parliament (MP) and represented a total of five constituencies over that time. Ideologically an adherent to economic liberalism and imperialism, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, which h…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Winston ChurchillIn war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
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In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hill…
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.