Winston Churchill — Philosophical Quotes

156 quotes · Politician, Writer, Historian

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Winston Churchill Quotes

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Winston Churchill

Politician, Writer, Historian

Philosophical

“Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good.”

Mean Progress This Generation

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Winston Churchill

Politician, Writer, Historian

Philosophical

“Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?”

Stars Together Healthy

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Philosophical

“Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.”

Law Safety

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Philosophical

“Watch your character for your character is your destiny.”

Character Watches

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Philosophical

“Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library.”

Men Library Leisure

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Philosophical

“We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?”

Made Ready

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Philosophical

“Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.”

Industry Lobbyists

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Philosophical

“Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.”

Military Air Force

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Philosophical

“There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.”

Imagination Enemy Common Sense

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Philosophical

“The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers.”

Light Evil Land

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Philosophical

“It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State”

Powerful States Alternatives

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Philosophical

“All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message.”

War Party Technique

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