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A politician needs 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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WINSTON CHURCHILL The first quality that is needed is audacity.
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WINSTON CHURCHILL In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
WINSTON CHURCHILL If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
WINSTON CHURCHILL For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and ar...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
WINSTON CHURCHILL We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight ...
WINSTON CHURCHILL The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
WINSTON CHURCHILL From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Cont...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
WINSTON CHURCHILL I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the even...
WINSTON CHURCHILL A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life
WINSTON CHURCHILL Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
WINSTON CHURCHILL Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
WINSTON CHURCHILL My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was s...
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