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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.


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STANLEY COREN -Sir, se lei fosse mio marito, io le avvelenerei il tè.
-Madam, se lei fosse mia moglie, io lo...
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MATT HAIG The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things...
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ALBERT EINSTEIN The things which must be, must be for the best, God helps us do our duty and not shrink, And t...
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DAVID GEMMELL That's all the freedom we can hope for - the freedom to choose our prison.
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DANTE SCALA A single word often betrays a great design.
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT And since the portions of both the large and the small are equal in amount, in this way too all thin...
ANAXAGORAS the best of American patriotism and service to their country. They did their duty with honor and wit...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sur...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Twenty to twenty-five! These are the years! Dont be content with things as they are. Dont take No fo...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We have all seen with a sense of nausea the abject, squalid, shameless avowal made in the Oxford Uni...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull th...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in m...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. About Russia
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yours...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I never worry about action, but only inaction.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistr...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluid...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is anot...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The price of greatness is responsibility.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire l...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to histor...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I am easily satisfied with the very best.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you are going through hell, keep going.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme accepta...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No crime is so great as daring to excel.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL These are not dark days: these are great days -- the greatest days our country has ever lived.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is th...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely ...
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SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in th...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contrad...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerit...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The English never draw a line without blurring it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their wil...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or pet...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Responsibility is the price of greatness.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL There is no such thing as a good tax.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit t...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponen...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event ...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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