Winston Churchill


"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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"We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."

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"Nancy Astor: 'If you were my husband, I would put poison in your tea.'
Churchill: 'If I were your husband, I would drink it.'"

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"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."

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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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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right"

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"We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm"

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

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"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

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

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"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."

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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

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

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

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

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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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"A politician needs 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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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see."

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"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

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"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."

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

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

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"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."

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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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"A great lesson in life, it's that sometimes, crazy people are right."

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

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"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong"

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

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"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

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"It's only at night that the stars shine."

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"In England, everything is permitted, except that which is forbidden. In Germany, everything is forbidden, except that which is permitted. In France, everything is permitted even that which is forbidden. In the USSR, everything is forbidden, even that which is permitted."

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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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