"The price of greatness is responsibility."

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

Churchill, Winston on action
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"Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game."

Churchill, Winston on risk
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"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."

Churchill, Winston on color   

"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right."

Churchill, Winston on science
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"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."

Churchill, Winston on courage
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"Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

Churchill, Winston on anger
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"I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

Churchill, Winston on death
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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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"The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No for an answer. Never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed and won by youth. She has lived and thrived only by repeated subjugations. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised
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"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."

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

Churchill, Winston on vocabulary
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"When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber."

Churchill, Winston on silence
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"Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down."

Churchill, Winston on speakers and speaking   

"Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Churchill, Winston on success
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"I never worry about action, but only inaction."

Churchill, Winston on action
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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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"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."

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

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

Churchill, Winston on vision
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"If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised
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