àPrime Minister Sir Winston Churchill
“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
“Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.”
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.”
“I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.”
“…I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.”
—From a speech to a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C.
“I like pigs: dogs look up to us, cats look down on us, pigs treat us as equals.”
"If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
"Never, never, never, never give up."
“Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air. We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender."
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
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