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Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Quote by Winston Churchill

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Quote by Winston Churchill about defeat, victory

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Quote by Winston Churchill about word, old, olderness

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

Quote by Winston Churchill about word

Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about.

Quote by Winston Churchill about good, good luck, man

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

Quote by Winston Churchill about intelligence

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

Quote by Winston Churchill about quality, courage, human imperfections

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

Quote by Winston Churchill about criticism, attention, pain, body, state, human imperfections, things

Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Quote by Winston Churchill about danger, contentment

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Quote by Winston Churchill about dictatorship

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Quote by Winston Churchill about difficulties, chance

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

Quote by Winston Churchill about old, olderness, world

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

Quote by Winston Churchill about tradition, nothing

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Quote by Winston Churchill about word

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

Quote by Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

Quote by Winston Churchill about day

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.

Quote by Winston Churchill about army, air, power, good, good luck

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Quote by Winston Churchill about history, past

From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Quote by Winston Churchill

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Quote by Winston Churchill