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In those days he was wiser than he is now--he used frequently to take my advice.
Topic: Advice / Experience / Wisdom
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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.
Topic: Capitalism
Source: None
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A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
Topic: Communism
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile--hoping it will eat him last.
Topic: Compromise
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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.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. -Winston Churchill.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Topic: Death
Source: None
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Topic: Death / Immortality
Source: None
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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
Topic: Defeat
Source: None
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Topic: Defeat
Source: None
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Topic: Education
Source: None
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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter.
Topic: Fear
Source: None
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Topic: Heroism
Source: None
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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
Topic: Leadership
Source: None
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Topic: Leadership
Source: None
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I am always ready to learn although I do not always like to be taught.
Topic: Learning
Source: None
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Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.
Topic: Lying
Source: None
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Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.
Topic: Martyrs
Source: None
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.
Topic: Military
Source: None
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The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Topic: Opportunity
Source: None
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For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Topic: Optimism
Source: None
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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.
Topic: Politics
Source: None
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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Topic: Politics / Government
Source: None
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Topic: Quotes
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'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using [it] against uncivilised tribes.'
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Winston
Churchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorising
use of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6
invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil (British
Petroleum) in the last 100 years.
Topic: Race
Source: None
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Responsibility is the price of greatness.
Topic: Responsibility
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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.
Topic: Society
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You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under
pressure.
Topic: Sports
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Truth
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Topic: Truth
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Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.
Topic: Truth
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.
Topic: Victory
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The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Topic: Vision
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No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.
Topic: War
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Topic: Wealth
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Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Topic: Word
Source: None
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