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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) 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 he led from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924.

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Quotes from Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.

—Winston Churchill

effort hell continuation

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

—Winston Churchill

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

—Winston Churchill

virtue vice admiration dislike

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.

—Winston Churchill

preperation martyrdom

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

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The price of greatness is responsibility.

—Winston Churchill

responsibility greatness price

There is no such thing as a good tax.

—Winston Churchill

good

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

—Winston Churchill

perception dogs cats pigs

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

—Winston Churchill

My wife and I tried two to three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable that we had to stop.

—Winston Churchill

relationships time breakfast

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

—Winston Churchill

Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

—Winston Churchill

cats

Destiny is for people who are too lazy to create alternate timelines.

—Winston Churchill

destiny

A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.

—Winston Churchill

dogs