Winston Churchill quotes - page 28

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. (Winston Churchill)
If you destroy a free market, you create a black market. View quote
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A nation which has forgotten its past can have no future. View quote
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Don't argue about difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves. View quote
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When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime. View quote
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life. View quote
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There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. View quote
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I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. View quote
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Writing is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public. View quote
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By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. View quote
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All the great things are simple. (Winston Churchill)
In my belief you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing. View quote
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History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future and none at all over the past. View quote
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Opening amenities are often opening inanities. View quote
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There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away. View quote
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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it. View quote
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Wars are not won by evacuations. View quote
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Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. View quote
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We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage. View quote
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If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised. View quote
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If you mean to profit, learn to please. (Winston Churchill)
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance. View quote
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Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out. View quote
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The Russians will try all the rooms in a house, enter those that are not locked, and when they come to one that cannot be broken into, they will withdraw and invite you to dine genially that that same evening. View quote
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(Prime Minister Joseph) Chamberlain loves the working man - he loves to see him work. View quote
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