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Statesman

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Birth Date / Year:

November 30, 1874

Death Date / Year:

January 24, 1965

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  A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  A joke is a very serious thing. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  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. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Eating words has never given me indigestion. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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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. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Great and good are seldom the same man. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  History is written by the victors. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I am easily satisfied with the very best. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I have never developed indigestion from eating my words. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I like a man who grins when he fights. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I never worry about action, but only inaction. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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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. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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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. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  If 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. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  If you're going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Never, never, never give up. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  No crime is so great as daring to excel. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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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. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  One does not leave a convivial party before closing time. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The first quality that is needed is audacity. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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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. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  There is no such thing as a good tax. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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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. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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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. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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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. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to preserve against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget? Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill | Refcard PDF ↑

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