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Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill

“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: The Churchill wit (1965 edition)

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Winston Churchill

“A joke is a very serious thing.”

- Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: Attributed

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Winston Churchill

“A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”

- Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill

“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”

- Winston Churchill

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

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“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: United Europe Meeting, Albert Hall, London (May 14, 1947)

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Winston Churchill

“Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: 30 August 1941. As quoted in: "Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists" (November 1950), p. 328. Also in: "A Dictionary of Scientific Quotations" (CRC Press, 1991) by Alan L. Mackay, p. 54 - ISBN: 9780750301060.

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Winston Churchill

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: As quoted in: Reader's Digest (December 1954)

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Winston Churchill

“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.”

- Winston Churchill

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“Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.”

- Winston Churchill

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“Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.”

- Winston Churchill

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“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”

- Winston Churchill

Source/Notes: Maxims and reflections of the Rt. Hon. Winston S. Churchill (Houghton Mifflin, 1949), p. 168

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