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#1

“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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#2

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing

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#3

“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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#4

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: perseverance, wisdom

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#5

“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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#6

“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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#7

“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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#8

“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: fools, humility

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#9

“Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor

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#10

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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#11

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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#12

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: history

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#13

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: distractions

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#14

“If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: persistence, public-speaking, speeches

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#15

“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: america, history, immigration, politics, revolution, united-states, usa

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#16

“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: enemies, friendship, judgement

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#17

“Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: education, government, political-philosophy, public-duty, voting

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#18

“Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: freedom-of-choice, government, inspirational, political-philosophy, politics

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#19

“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: abortion, obvious, right-to-life

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#20

“The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: leadership

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#21

“If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: inspirational, religon, separation-of-church-and-state

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