463 ordspråk av Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill föddes den November 30th 1874 och dog den 24 January 1965 - during World War II.
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 The poor girl does not know how to have a conversation. Unfortunately, she does know how to speak.

 The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

 The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

 The power of the executive to cast a man into prison, ... without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious, and the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

 The price of greatness is responsibility.

 The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

 The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

 The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put.

 The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that same evening.

 The shadow of victory is disillusion

 The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss

 The Times is speechless, and it takes three columns to express its speechlessness

 The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.

 The United States is like giant boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can generate.

 The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.


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