"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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"No crime is so great as daring to excel."

Churchill, Winston on risk
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"I am easily satisfied with the very best."

Churchill, Winston on action
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"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."

Churchill, Winston on simplicity
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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

Churchill, Winston on capitalism
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"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

Churchill, Winston on change
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"If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future."

Churchill, Winston on time
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"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty."

Churchill, Winston on wealth
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"Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality."

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism
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"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses."

Churchill, Winston on communism and socialism
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"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party."

Churchill, Winston on politics
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"I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else."

Churchill, Winston on optimism
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"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."

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

Churchill, Winston on dictators and dictatorship
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"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."

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

Churchill, Winston on life
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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last."

Churchill, Winston on compromise
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