"Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose."

Churchill, Winston on golf
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"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."

Churchill, Winston on government
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"It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter"

Churchill, Winston on fear
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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

Churchill, Winston on fanatics and fanaticism
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

Churchill, Winston on difficulties
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"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

Churchill, Winston on dogs
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"No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."

Churchill, Winston on expression
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"Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance."

Churchill, Winston on vengeance
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"The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is."

Churchill, Winston on truth
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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened."

Churchill, Winston on truth
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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

Churchill, Winston on virtue
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"The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."

Churchill, Winston on vision
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"Short words are the best and old words when short are best of all."

Churchill, Winston on vocabulary
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"It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."

Churchill, Winston on achievement
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"In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice."

Churchill, Winston on advice
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