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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

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

—Winston Churchill

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

—Winston Churchill

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed.

—Winston Churchill

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

—Winston Churchill

There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.

—Winston Churchill

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

—Winston Churchill

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

—Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

—Winston Churchill

For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

—Winston Churchill

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

—Winston Churchill

Time is just something that we assign. You know, past, present, it's just all arbitrary. Most Native Americans, they don't think of time as linear; in time, out of time, I never have enough time, circular time, the Stevens wheel. All moments are happening all the time.

—Winston Churchill

The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.

—Winston Churchill

Either war is obsolete or men are.

—Winston Churchill

How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?

—Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

—Winston Churchill

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