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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: attributed-no-source, convictions, criticism
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: truth
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor, taste
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history, humor, writing
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
    ― Winston Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: fanaticism, zealot
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  • #10
    Winston S. Churchill
    “Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: inspirational, optimism
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  • #12
    Winston S. Churchill
    “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

    [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, Wealth, War and Wisdom
    tags: admiration, classic-insult, vice, virtue
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: appeasement, human, humor, nature, politics
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: free-speech
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.”
    ― Winston Churchill
    tags: inspirational, war
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: Alone
    tags: determination
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: entitlement, government
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: accomplishment, achievement, challenge
    474 likes

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    Margaret Thatcher
    “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: perseverance, rewriting-history
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: patience, perseverance
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher : The Greatest Speeches
    tags: democracy, inspirational, leadership, reality
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  • #24
    Margaret Thatcher
    “If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. ”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
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    Margaret Thatcher
    “I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: humor, inspirational, politics, slander, wisdom
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  • #26
    Margaret Thatcher
    “When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: humor, politics
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  • #27
    Margaret Thatcher
    “Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”
    ― Margaret Thatcher
    tags: stories, story
    92 likes



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