Winston Churchill

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The price of greatness is responsibility.

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Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught

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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said—namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it. - on his 80th birthday, address to Parliament 11/30/54

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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

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“No comment” is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

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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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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

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Eating words has never given me indigestion.

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Politics are 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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Fanatyk to ten, kto nie potrafi zmienić swojego zdania i nie zmieni tematu.

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

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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 time.

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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.

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[Prime Minister Joseph] Chamberlain loves the working man -- he loves to see him work.

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If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce

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[Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

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MacDonald has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts.

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In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable.

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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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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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Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

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Perfectionism is spelled "Paralysis."

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I said that the world must be made safe for at least fifty years. If it was only for fifteen to twenty years then we should have betrayed our soldiers.

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Of the British: They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are - who like to be told the worst.

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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

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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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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last.

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Psy patrzą na ludzi z pokorą, koty z pogardą, tylko świnie patrzą na nas jak na równych sobie.

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[...] Głupcy także mają czasem rację.

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Nigdy w dziejach wojen tak liczni nie zawdzięczali tak wiele tak nielicznym.

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W życiu chodzi o to, aby uczyć się tak, by inni nie spostrzegli, że się człowiek uczy.

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Nie ma lepszej inwestycji dla narodu niż napełnianie dzieci mlekiem.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

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Radio broadcast (March 21, 1943), cited in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 21 ISBN 1586486381

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You won't strain your eyes if you look at the bright side of things

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You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

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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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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

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We make a living by what we do, but we make a life by what we give.

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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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Trudności, które opanowałeś, są szansami, które wygrałeś.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

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Without victory there is no survival!

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I said that the world must be made safe for at least fifty years. If it was only for fifteen to twenty years then we should have betrayed our soldiers.

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Of Mr. Baldwin: It is a fine thing to be honest but it is also very important to be right.

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Of the British: They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are - who like to be told the worst.

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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong.

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Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time--a tremendous whack.

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The inherent voice of capitalism is unequal sharing of blessings;the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries

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The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat,but they are no less difficult.

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I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me.

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Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

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In war,resolution,in depeat,defiance,in victory,magnanimity,in peace,goodwill

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Success is never final

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If Hitler invaded hell,I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil at the House of Commons.

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It was the nation...that had the lion's heart.I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.

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Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal,has no heart;and any man who is over 30,and is not a conservative,has no brains

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Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.

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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

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When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

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We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.

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We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

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I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

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Victory at all costs; victory in spite of all terror; victory no matter how long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

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Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;and optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty

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Ludzie sporadycznie potykają się o prawdę. Jednak większość z nich szybko podnosi się i odchodzi jakby nic się nie wydarzyło.

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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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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There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

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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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It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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Mr Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.

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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

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A dog will look up on you; a cat will look down on you; however, a pig will see you eye to eye and know it has found an equal.

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When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

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We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

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The maxim of the British people is "Business as Usual."

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Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.

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I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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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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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

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For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss.

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True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.

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Zawsze jestem gotów się uczyć, choć nie zawsze chcę aby mnie uczono.

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Pesymizm jest przywilejem mlodych W starszym wieku nie ma sie na to czasu

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Mowcy powinni miec na uwadze nie tylko to, by wyczerpac temat, ale takze by nie wyczerpac sluchaczy

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Dobry polityk musi umiec przewidziec, co bedzie sie dzialo jutro, za tydzien, czy za rok i musi umiec wytlumaczyc, dlaczego nie zaszlo to, co przepowiedzial

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W zyciu chodzi o to, aby uczyc sie tak, by inni nie spostrzegli, ze sie czlowiek uczy

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Godnym zastanowienia jest fakt, ze nasi przyjaciele predzej umieraja niz nasi wrogowie

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Przyjaciol mozna miec o kazdej porze Pod warunkiem ze sie ich nie potrzebuje

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