Winston Churchill Quotes, Character Quotes, Firsts Quotes

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

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I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

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"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

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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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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

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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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Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

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Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn't know where he was going, he didn?t know where he was? and he did it all at taxpayers expense.

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I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine.

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

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I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

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The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes.

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The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike.

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English literature is a glorious inheritance which is open to all - there are no barriers, no coupons, and no restrictions. In the English language and in its great writers there are great riches and treasures, of which, of course, the Bible and Shakespeare stand along on the highest platform.

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I'm too busy. I have no time for worry.

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Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death.

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Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

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Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.

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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

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It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told.

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