The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

Winston S. Churchill


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The maxim, "Nothing prevails but perfection," may be spelled PARALYSIS.

Winston S. Churchill

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No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.

Winston S. Churchill

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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

Winston S. Churchill

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Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Winston S. Churchill


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Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Winston S. Churchill


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The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits

Winston S. Churchill


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The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.

Winston S. Churchill

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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 S. Churchill

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

Winston S. Churchill

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