Sir Winston Churchill quote: "In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not...
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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Kites rise highest against the wind; not with it.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
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The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters ...
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If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
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In War: ResolutionIn Defeat: DefianceIn Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will
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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
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The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is ...
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I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offe...
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Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large ma...
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Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia i...
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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma;...
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Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will no...
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Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, ...
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because h...
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For myself I am an optimistit does not seem to be much use being anything else.
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Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the ch...
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemans speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is...
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Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettyne...
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I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. ...
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There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn o...
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One woman who managed to corner him, the story runs, said in a treacly gushing voice:Doesnt it thril...
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I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of ...
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
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The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundatio...
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This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
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I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British E...
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The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealw...
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Once upon a time all the animals in the zoo decided that they would disarm, and they arranged to hav...
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It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sur...
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Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful se...
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I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley...
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I am most anxious that in dealing with matters which every Member knows are extremely delicate matte...
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We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of ...
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A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Bal...
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Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No fo...
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We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Uni...
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When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals to...
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Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull th...
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There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in m...
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Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
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Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
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There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. About Russia
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The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, ...
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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.
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Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, ...
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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake o...
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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservati...
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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...
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There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
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Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yours...
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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
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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...
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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
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You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
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In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and...
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I never worry about action, but only inaction.
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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistr...
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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow th...
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish t...
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
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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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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed...
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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The ol...
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluid...
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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are...
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own coun...
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Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is anot...
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire l...
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Well, dinner would have been splendid
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He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have...
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
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History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to histor...
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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels rou...
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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting informat...
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not ...
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor...
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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
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Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
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I am easily satisfied with the very best.
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If you are going through hell, keep going.
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
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It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme accepta...
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No crime is so great as daring to excel.
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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
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Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like dri...
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
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We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
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The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
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It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.
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Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
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It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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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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The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungr...
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It may be that we shall, by a process of sublime irony, have reached a stage in this story where saf...
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act...
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because h...
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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth ...
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No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is th...
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never...
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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
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We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his ...
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations...
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Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodw...
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely ...
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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singula...
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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
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Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in th...
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
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No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contrad...
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
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The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerit...
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
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The English never draw a line without blurring it.
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Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my...
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
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Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
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I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
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No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their wil...
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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or pet...
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Responsibility is the price of greatness.
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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at ...
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There is no such thing as a good tax.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit t...
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Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
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It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a...
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponen...
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely...
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event ...
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

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