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What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.
Winston Churchill
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Winston Churchill
Age: 90 †
Born: 1874
Born: November 30
Died: 1965
Died: January 24
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I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
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The English never draw a line without blurring it.
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
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Nothing should be done for spite's sake.
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The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.
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A joke is a very serious thing.
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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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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
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The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.
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The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny.
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Leadership is the intelligent use of power.
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Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
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Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.
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A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat.
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Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.
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Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day.
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Success comes from continuing to strive, fail and learn without losing enthusiasm.
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In Critical and baffling situations, it is always best to return to first principle and simple action
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