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"War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can."

Churchill, Winston on war
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"Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

Churchill, Winston on learning
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"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."

Churchill, Winston on leadership
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"Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill."

Churchill, Winston on intentions
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"The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."

Churchill, Winston on justice
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"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on."

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another"

Churchill, Winston on humankind
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"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."

Churchill, Winston on ideals and idealism
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."

Churchill, Winston on honesty
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"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."

Churchill, Winston on home
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"For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."

Churchill, Winston on history and historians
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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."

Churchill, Winston on lies and lying
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"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."

Churchill, Winston on life
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"Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal."

Churchill, Winston on animals
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"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."

Churchill, Winston on victory
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"Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."

Churchill, Winston on nuclear age
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"The maxim of the British people is Business as usual."

Churchill, Winston on nations
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"Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]"

Churchill, Winston on nations
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"There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided."

Churchill, Winston on nationalities and nationalism
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"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."

Churchill, Winston on mistakes
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"The empires of the futures are the empires of the mind."

Churchill, Winston on mind
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"Logic is a poor guide compared with custom."

Churchill, Winston on logic
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"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."

Churchill, Winston on art
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"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. "

Churchill, Winston on army and navy
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"We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often."

Churchill, Winston on anxiety
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour."

Churchill, Winston on heroes and heroism
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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

Churchill, Winston on heroes and heroism
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"He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about."

Churchill, Winston on modesty
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"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."

Churchill, Winston on knowledge
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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."

Churchill, Winston on age and aging
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"They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

Churchill, Winston on decisions
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"The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."

Churchill, Winston on defeat
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"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."

Churchill, Winston on democracy
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"It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Churchill, Winston on democracy
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"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount."

Churchill, Winston on dictators and dictatorship
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"I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it."

Churchill, Winston on expression
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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

Churchill, Winston on greatness
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"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

Churchill, Winston on grammar
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"If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire."

Churchill, Winston on god
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