British - Statesman | November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
Winston Churchill
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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
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When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
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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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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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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.
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
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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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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
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