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Winston Churchill

British politician and Nobel Prize Laureate

(11/30/1874 - 01/24/1965)


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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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
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Before we proceed further let us get one thing clear. Are we talking about the brown Indians in India, who have multiplied alarmingly under the benevolent British rule? Or are we speaking of the red Indians in America who, I understand, are almost extinct?
Helen Ogden Mills Reid, sister of the anti-British owner of the Chicago Tribune, encountered Churchill at a White House lunch in 1943 and immediately attacked him on the grounds of Britains's treatment of India.
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Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
probable replying to Lady Astor's comment 'Sir, you're drunk!'
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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If you're going through hell, keep going.
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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