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Winston Churchill Quotes

«[Lady Nancy Astor:] Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee. ... Nancy, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.»
«To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.»
«Wars are not won by evacuations.»
«We must just KBO ('Keep Buggering On').»
«[Critics of the reforms are unlikely to be assuaged, and they will raise many of their concerns again when the reform bill returns to the Commons in October before heading to the Lords. Its architects might do well to reflect on another quote, from one of Woodrow Wilson's contemporaries.] There's nothing wrong with change, ... if it's in the right direction.»
«People imagine that Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin arrived in Yalta with a blank sheet of paper to decide the fate of Europe. Nothing could be further from the truth,»
«The biggest mistake that leaders can make is to give people false hope that melts like snow.»
«One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.»
«We must have a better word than 'prefabricated'. Why not 'ready-made'?»
«Sometimes people will stumble over the truth. But then they get up and continue to run like nothing has happened»