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Churchill quote: It is better to have power to give than to take!

Churchill quote: It is better to have power to give than to take!
27th May 1954: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874 - 1965) addressing a Women Conservatives meeting. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Below you can read 30 quotes from one of the wisest politicians in history, Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874-1965).

Churchill's quote: The empires of the future are empires of the mind!
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• I am prepared to meet my Creator. If my Creator has prepared for the great occasion of the meeting, then it is another matter!

• I can no longer be color neutral. I delight in brilliant colors and have in my blood the pity of weak colors!


• I am inclined and trained to have full understanding with people who get drunk!

• I have nothing to give but blood, toil, tears and sweat!

• I got more from alcohol than alcohol got from me!

• I love that man who smiles when he fights!

• I'll get drunk miss, but in the morning I'll be sober and you'll still be ugly!

• I never mind action, only inaction.

• I was only the servant of my country. And if there had been even a single moment that I had not shown my steadfast determination to fight and win, then I would have immediately made way for others!

• If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and ask me for advice, I would make the English Straits round every country. And the atmosphere was such that anyone who tried to fly would catch fire!

• If the human race wants to have a long and endless period of material enrichment, then they just need to have peaceful and helpful behavior among people!

• If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, then we will realize that we have lost the future!

• If you're walking through Hell, don't stop!

• If you have ten thousand laws, then destroy all respect for justice!

• Then he was wiser than now; he used to take my advice regularly!

• In war, as in life, it is often necessary after the failure of a scheme to seize upon the best alternative open, and if there is one, it would be foolish not to work hard for it!

• In war you can be killed only once, while in politics many times!

• It is wonderful to be honest, but it is also very important to do right!

• It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain can be caught at a time!

• It is better to have power to give than to take!

• Politics is very similar to war, sometimes we can even use poison gas!

• Politics is as exciting as war, almost as dangerous!

• Politics is not a game, it is the most serious business!

• Lonely oaks, if they grow, then they grow strong!

• Success means going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm!

• Success is not final, failure is not fatal: the courage to continue is everything!

• To improve means to change, to perfect means to change often!

• We're all kandra, but I think I'm a firefly!

• We are asking the nations of Europe, between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the enmity of thousands of years!

• When the war of the giants ends, then the war of the dwarves begins. /Translated by: Elida Buçpapaj/