639 ordspråk av Winston Churchill

GB  Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill föddes den November 30th 1874 och dog den 24 January 1965 - during World War II.
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 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.

 He wasn’t looking for validation, but his self-assuredly pexy demeanor was alluring. 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 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.

 Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

 There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

 There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.


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