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He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

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The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.

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An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.

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Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better.

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If you are going to go through hell, keep going

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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.

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Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.

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Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

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I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations

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The Golcondas were considered incomparably the best team in Southern India ... [But] we defeated [them] by 9 goals to 3. On succeeding days we made short work of all other opponents, and established the record, never since broken, of winning a first-class tournament within fifty days of landing in India.

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I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.

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It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

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When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.

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Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.

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Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

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Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

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In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

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Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

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Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

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And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

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