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Winston Churchill

Born: November 30, 1874

Died: January 24, 1965

Nationality: English

Occupation: Statesman

Biography: Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British Conservative politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the century, he served as Prime Minister twice.

Winston Churchill

“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 Churchill

Source/Notes: War speeches (1951 edition)
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“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: The Second World War (1939 - 1945)
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“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: Speech, 1944. Often misquoted as "The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see." or "The further backward you look, the further forward you can see."
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“The first quality that is needed is audacity.”

- Winston Churchill

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“The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.”

- Winston Churchill

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“The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.”

- Winston Churchill

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“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: The Gathering Storm (1948 edition)
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“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963: 1950-1963 (1974 edition), Chelsea House - ISBN: 9780835206938
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“The price of greatness is responsibility.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations (2008 edition), PublicAffairs - ISBN: 9781586486389
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Winston Churchill

“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: Speech in the House of Commons, November 11, 1942 Debate on the address. - The Second World War (1939 - 1945)
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“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”

- Winston Churchill

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“The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.”

- Winston Churchill

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“There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotations (2008 edition), PublicAffairs - ISBN: 9781586486389
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“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”

- Winston Churchill

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