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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
British politician [more author details]
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- A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- 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.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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- There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
- Sir Winston Churchill
- We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Sir Winston Churchill
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