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- Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong-these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech, House of Commons, May 2, 1935
- Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep them in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Letter to Home Secretary Herbert Morrison
- We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Radio broadcast, London, March 21, 1943
- 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 (1874 - 1965)
- Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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