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Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you! Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong When you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life The price of greatness is responsibility The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see I never worry about action, but only about inaction If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense 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. There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. The length of this document defends it well against the risk of it being read We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught History will be kind to me for I intend to write it Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few You are drunk Sir Winston, you are disgustingly drunk. 'Yes, Mrs. Braddock, I am drunk. But you, Mrs. Braddock are ugly, and disgustingly fat. But, tomorrow morning, I, Winston Churchill will be sober Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried
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