| Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. |
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| So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Politics are 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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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.... The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| If you're going through hell, keep going. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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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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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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| For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. |
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- Sir Winston Churchill |
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