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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.
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If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
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The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt.
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Ethics evolve naturally, and we trample upon them with laws created by reason and experience.
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The rhinoceros stood ... about five hundred yards away ... not a twentieth-century animal at all, but an odd, grim straggler from the Stone Age.
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I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action.
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It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]
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Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day.
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
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Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.
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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.
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Victory is the beautiful, bright-colored flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.
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The influence exercised over the human mind by apt analogies is and has always been immense. Whether they translate an established truth into simple language or whether they adventurously aspire to reveal the unknown, they are among the most formidable weapons of the rhetorician.
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