British - Statesman | November 30, 1874 - January 24, 1965
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
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.
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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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It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
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Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
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We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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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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I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.
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Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
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