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

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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.: Sir Winston Churchill
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.: Sir Winston Churchill
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All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.: Sir Winston Churchill
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.: Sir Winston Churchill
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.: Sir Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.: Sir Winston Churchill
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.: Sir Winston Churchill
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.: Sir Winston Churchill
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.: Sir Winston Churchill
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.: Sir Winston Churchill
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.: Sir Winston Churchill
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event has taken place.: 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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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.: 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
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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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