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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man ... the Kaffir is to be declared the brother of the European, to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights.
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Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.
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The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
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Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open and it had never been locked.
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I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.
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All wisdom is not new wisdom.
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In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.
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It is never possible to guarantee success, it is only possible to deserve it.
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When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.
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You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do.
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I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future.
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Never run away from anything. Never!
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It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State
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Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields.
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The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion.
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Some men change their party for the sake of their principles others their principles for the sake of their party
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If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth.
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You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.
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Without victory there is no survival!
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Time passes swiftly, but is it not joyous to see how great and growing is the treasure we have gathered together, amid the storms and stresses of so many eventful and to millions tragic and terrible years?
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