We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
—Winston Churchill
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Play the game for more than you can afford to lose … only then will you learn the game.
—Winston Churchill
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
—Winston Churchill
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A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind.
—Winston Churchill
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
—Winston Churchill
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One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.
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There is always a strong case for doing nothing, especially for doing nothing yourself.
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I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it.
—Winston Churchill
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So we must beware of a tyranny of opinion which tries to make only one side of a question the one which may be heard. Everyone is in favour of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
—Winston Churchill
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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
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
—Winston Churchill
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
—Winston Churchill
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
—Winston Churchill
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
—Winston Churchill
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
—Winston Churchill
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, “it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
—Winston Churchill
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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
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He is a modest little person with much to be modest about.
—Winston Churchill
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I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong—these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
—Winston Churchill
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
—Winston Churchill
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There is no such thing as a good tax.
—Winston Churchill
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities … because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
—Winston Churchill