Winston Churchill Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

2. Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

3. Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

4. When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

5. ...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace. The Story of the Malakand Field Force

6. The price of greatness is responsibility.