Winston Churchill Quotes, Writing Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.

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Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

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Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.

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After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

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Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

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I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play.

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I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

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The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.

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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

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Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.

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Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

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I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

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Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.

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You do your worst, and we'll do our best.

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I am writing in one of the Keepers' Lodges to wh I have returned after stalking & where I am waiting for the Prince of Wales. Quite the best day's sport I have had in this country - 4 good stags & home early!

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The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.

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I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it.

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Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

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It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

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