Winston Churchill

(82 votes)   Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

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(81 votes)   A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

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(81 votes)   Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

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(81 votes)   The maxim of the British people is ''Business as usual.''

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(81 votes)   To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

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(80 votes)   A joke is a very serious thing.

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(79 votes)   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.

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(79 votes)   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.

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(79 votes)   Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. [About Russia]

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(79 votes)   Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

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(78 votes)   It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

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(78 votes)   No crime is so great as daring to excel.

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(78 votes)   There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

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(77 votes)   No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

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(77 votes)   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.

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