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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Winston Churchill

War

Smile

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

Winston Churchill

Genius

Information

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

Winston Churchill

Man

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

Winston Churchill

War

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill

Change

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Winston Churchill

Truth

Nothing

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Winston Churchill

Poor

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Winston Churchill

History

Will

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

Winston Churchill

Strategy

Results

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Winston Churchill

Policy

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

Being

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill

Being

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Winston Churchill

Fact