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(1874-1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1940-1945, 1951-1955)

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Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

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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 best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

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

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

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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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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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The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.

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To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself.

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[On recognizing China] But if you recognize anyone it does not mean you like them. For instance, we all recognize the right honourable gentleman the member for Ebbw Vale.

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A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.

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To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.

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

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A lie get halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get it's pants on.

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A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it.

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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put.

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From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

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If you are going to go through hell, keep going.

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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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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

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It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

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It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.

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

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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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Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.

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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.

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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

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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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The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery.

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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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There but for the grace of God goes God.

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There is no such thing as a good tax.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

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Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.

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We contend that for a Nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

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

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Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height

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You have enemies? Good! That means you've stood up for something sometime in your life.

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[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

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