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“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“I could not live without champagne. In victory I deserve it. In defeat I need it.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig – he just looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“Kites rise highest against the wind – not with it.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“It is much better to set up an objective, even if it be beyond your reach, than it is to give up the struggle at the outset.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston 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. FIRST SPEECH AS PRIME MINISTER IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, 1940”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“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 and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. AFTER THE EVACUATION FROM DUNKIRK, 1940”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“For my own part I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities which he excites among his opponents. I have always set myself not merely to relish but to deserve thoroughly their censure.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill

“No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”
― Max Morris, The Smart Words and Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill