Author

Winston Churchill

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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.”— Winston Churchill
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”— Winston Churchill
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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.”— Winston Churchill
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“It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.”— Winston Churchill
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“It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”— Winston Churchill
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“We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.”— Winston Churchill
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“If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.”— Winston Churchill
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“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”— Winston Churchill
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“There is no such thing as a good tax.”— Winston Churchill
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“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.”— Winston Churchill
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“Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.”— Winston Churchill
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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.”— Winston Churchill
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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”— Winston Churchill
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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”— 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.”— Winston Churchill
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“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”— Winston Churchill
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George Bernard Shaw: “Have reserved two tickets for my first night. Come and bring a friend, if you have one.”
Winston Churchill: “Impossible to come to first night. Will come to second night, if you have one.”
Context:Regarding tickets to the play “Saint Joan.”
Source:Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotat...
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“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”— Winston Churchill
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“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”— Winston Churchill
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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.”— 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 had happened.”— Winston Churchill
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”— Winston Churchill
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“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”— Winston Churchill
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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.”— Winston Churchill
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”— Winston Churchill