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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
British politician [more author details]

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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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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
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 price of greatness is responsibility.: Sir Winston Churchill
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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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.: Sir Winston Churchill
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.: Sir Winston Churchill
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.: Sir Winston Churchill, (attributed)
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.": Sir Winston Churchill, a conference in Washington DC
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job.: Sir Winston Churchill, BBC radio broadcast, Feb 9, 1941
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.: Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, June 10, 1941
I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.": Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, May 13, 1940
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 other forms that have been tried from time to time.: Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947
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So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.: Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.: Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.: Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday
I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.': Sir Winston Churchill, quoted in Rudolf Flesch, ed., "The New Book of Unusual Quotations" (NY: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 311
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