Quotes by Winston S. Churchill

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It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we must do what is required.

Winston S. Churchill

Sometimes doing your best is not good enough. Sometimes you must do what is required.

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Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.

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If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at le...

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I'm bored with it all. - Last Words

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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. We contend that for a nation to tax itself in...

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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

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In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.

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When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think (puff) my friend, you have had a pretty poor life.

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The most frightful of all spectacles is the strength of the civilization without its mercy.

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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.

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If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

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You 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.

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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 the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is heeded in time, danger may be averted; if it is suppressed, a...

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Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

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it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

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I know why logs spit. I know what it is to be consumed

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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea,...

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A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.

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Always remember, that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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