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1 The Wit and Wisdom of Winston Churchill

2 “If you wanted nothing done, Arthur Balfour was the man for the task.” Arthur Balfour, Conservative Prime Minister, 1902-06

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

4 “ "There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result."

5 “"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

6 “I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”

7 “We shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight on in the fields and the streets, we shall fight in the hills… then privately muttered And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that’s bloody well all we’ve got!”

8 “If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons.” (reference to helping the Soviet Union)

9 “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping that it will eat him last.”

10 “When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast.”

11 “I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is ready for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”

12 On Charles De Gaulle: “He looks like a llama who has just been surprised in her bath.”

13 You Decide…

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16 “Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you’ll find on the pillow.”

17 “Eating my words has never given me indigestion.”

18 “I am without office, without a seat…and without an appendix.”

19 “I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.”

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

21 “I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”


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