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Winston Churchill Quotes
It has been said
that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others
that have been tried.
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It is a fine thing
to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
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It is a good thing
for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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It is a mistake to
look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be
handled at a time.
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It is a remarkable
comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great
sovereign state should thus be received as an honorary citizen of
another.
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It is all right to
rat, but you can't re-rat.
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It is always wise
to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
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It is more
agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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It is no use
saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what
is necessary.
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It was the nation
and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I
had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
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It's no use
saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what
is necessary.
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Kites rise highest
against the wind - not with it.
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Let our advance
worrying become advance thinking and planning.
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Man will
occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick
himself up and continue on.
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Many forms of
Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and
woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it
has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all
those others that have been tried from time to time.
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Meeting Franklin
Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him
was like drinking it.
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Men occasionally
stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry
off as if nothing had happened.
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Moral of the Work.
In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In
peace: goodwill.
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Most people
stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick
themselves up and go on, anyway.
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Mr. Gladstone read
Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
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My hand seemed
arrested by a silent veto.
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My most brilliant
achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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My rule of life
prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the
drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and
in the intervals between them.
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My wife and I
tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast
together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
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Never hold
discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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Never in the field
of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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Never, never,
never give up.
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"No comment" is a
splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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No crime is so
great as daring to excel.
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No folly is more
costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
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No idea is so
outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the
same time a steady eye.
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No lover ever
studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President
Roosevelt.
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No part of the
education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of
elections.
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Nothing can be
more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in
prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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Nothing in life is
so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
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Now this is not
the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps,
the end of the beginning.
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One does not leave
a convivial party before closing time.
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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. Never run
away from anything. Never!
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Out of intense
complexities intense simplicities emerge.
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Perhaps it is
better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
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Personally I'm
always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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Play the game for
more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
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Politics are very
much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
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Politics is almost
as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be
killed once, but in politics many times.
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Politics is not a
game. It is an earnest business.
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Politics is the
ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next
month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why
it didn't happen.
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Really I feel less
keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
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Russia is a riddle
wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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Short words are
best and the old words when short are best of all.
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Socialism is a
philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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Solitary trees, if
they grow at all, grow strong.
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Some people regard
private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it
as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse,
pulling a sturdy wagon.
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Some regard
private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others
look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for
what it really is - the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
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Study history,
study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
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Success consists
of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Success is going
from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
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Success is not
final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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Sure I am of this,
that you have only to endure to conquer.
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Sure I am of this,
that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to
save yourselves.
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The best argument
against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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The British nation
is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told
how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
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The empires of the
future are the empires of the mind.
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The farther
backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
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The first quality
that is needed is audacity.
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The great defense
against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as
possible to their point of departure.
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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.
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The latest
refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
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The length of this
document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
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