Winston Churchill

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Biography : British politician and statesman.
Born: 1874 - Died: 1965
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Winston Churchill - Quotes

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
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A joke is a very serious thing.
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
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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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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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No crime is so great as daring to excel.
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We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
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respect

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

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
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To improve is to change to be perfect is to change often.
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In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
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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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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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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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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
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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.
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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
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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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Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
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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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