Winston Churchill
England
30 Nov 1874 // 24 Jan 1965
Politician / Statesman / Orator
30 Nov 1874 // 24 Jan 1965
Politician / Statesman / Orator
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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
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him
A joke is a very serious thing
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject
You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day
The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays