Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.


Winston Churchill

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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
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The price of greatness is responsibility.
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor...
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ...
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have...
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I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours...
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The first quality that is needed is audacity.
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels rou...
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In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
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If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
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For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and ar...
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight ...
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Cont...
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the even...
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A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life
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Soviet Union foreign policy is a puzzle inside a riddle wrapped in an enigma, and the key is Russian...
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, ...
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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was s...
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