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Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was a British politician, army officer, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. He was born on November 30, 1874, in Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, and died on January 24, 1965, in London, England. Churchill was a prolific writer, publishing more than 40 books and 500 articles in his lifetime. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1953 for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values.

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"Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all."

— Winston Churchill

"The price of greatness is responsibility."

— Winston Churchill

"Never, never, never give up."

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe."

— Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

— Winston Churchill

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm."

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"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

— Winston Churchill

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."

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"I never worry about action, but only inaction."

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"Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence is the key to unlocking our potential."

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"If you are going through hell, keep going."

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"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out"

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"It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic"

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"In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet"

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"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something in your life."

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"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"

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"Vengeance is the most costly and dissipating of luxuries"

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"To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often"

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"Time and money are largely interchangeable terms"

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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on"

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"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty"

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"It is not in our power to anticipate our destiny"

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"In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable"

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"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

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"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right"

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"In a war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times"

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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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"There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true"

— Winston Churchill

"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty"

— Winston Churchill

"We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another"

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"It is the time to dare and endure"

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"All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me"

— Winston Churchill

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give"

— Winston Churchill

"It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them"

— Winston Churchill

"All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope"

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"We must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic"

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"It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required"

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"All wisdom is not new wisdom"

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"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it"

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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"

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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last"

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"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us"

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"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best"

— Winston Churchill

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"

— Winston Churchill

"What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all"

— Winston Churchill

"Never, never, never give up"

— Winston Churchill

"Broadly speaking short words are best and the old words when short, are best of all"

— Winston Churchill

"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber"

— Winston Churchill

"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result"

— Winston Churchill

"Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential"

— Winston Churchill

"Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed"

— Winston Churchill

"Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library"

— Winston Churchill

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others"

— Winston Churchill

"You cannot cure cancer by a majority"

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"Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities"

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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen"

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"You must look at facts because they look at you"

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"One always measures friendships by how they show up in bad weather"

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"Craft is common both to skill and deceit"

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"You must put your head into the lion’s mouth if the performance is to be a success"

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"One ought to be just before one is generous"

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"Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old"

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"You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck"

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"Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge"

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"Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions"

— Winston Churchill

"You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks"

— Winston Churchill

"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught"

— Winston Churchill

"Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others"

— Winston Churchill

"There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions."

— Winston Churchill

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong"

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"Evils can be created much quicker than they can be cured"

— Winston Churchill

"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."

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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts"

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"For myself I am an optimist—it does not seem to be much use being anything else"

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"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting."

— Winston Churchill

"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm"

— Winston Churchill

"Give us the tools, and we will finish the job"

— Winston Churchill

"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

— Winston Churchill

"Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip"

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"Harsh laws are at times better than no laws at all"

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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."

— Winston Churchill

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter"

— Winston Churchill

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

— Winston Churchill

"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

— Winston Churchill

"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind"

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"I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial"

— Winston Churchill

"The English never draw a line without blurring it"

— Winston Churchill

"I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen"

— Winston Churchill

"The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers."

— Winston Churchill

"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see"

— Winston Churchill

"I may be drunk Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly"

— Winston Churchill

"If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care."

— Winston Churchill

"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes"

— Winston Churchill

"I never worry about action, but only about inaction"

— Winston Churchill

"There is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."

— Winston Churchill

"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go"

— Winston Churchill

"I object on principle to doing by legislation what properly belongs to human good feeling and charity"

— Winston Churchill

"I'm prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

— Winston Churchill

"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself"

— Winston Churchill

"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find that we have lost the future"

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"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

— Winston Churchill

"The price of greatness is responsibility"

— Winston Churchill

"If you destroy a free market you create a black market"

— Winston Churchill

"If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack."

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"The true guide of life is to do what is right"

— Winston Churchill

"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law"

— 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."

— Winston Churchill

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