You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE.
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If you will not fight for 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 odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.817818Copy Quote
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
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Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.717718Copy Quote
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.661662Copy Quote
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
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You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.
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Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.555556Copy Quote
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.547548Copy Quote
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.498499Copy Quote
A nation that forgets its past has no future.
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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.394395Copy Quote
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.379380Copy Quote
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Churchill: "Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?" Socialite: "My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course... " Churchill: "Would you sleep with me for five pounds?" Socialite: "Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!" Churchill: "Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price342343Copy Quote
A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest342343Copy Quote
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
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Never give up on something that you can't go a day without thinking about.
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The arts are essenÂtial to any comÂplete national life. The State owes it to itself to susÂtain and encourÂage them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the revÂerÂence and delight which are their due.259260Copy Quote
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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The gin and tonic has saved more Englishmen's lives, and minds, than all the doctors in the Empire.
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
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We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.199200Copy Quote
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.185186Copy Quote
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
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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.174175Copy Quote
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.161162Copy Quote
Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners.159160Copy Quote
To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.155156Copy Quote
One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions.
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We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.150151Copy Quote
The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history.147148Copy Quote
I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.
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If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea.
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Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school.146147Copy Quote
To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.143144Copy Quote
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
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Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.
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No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
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Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.135136Copy Quote
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.131132Copy Quote
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me.
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Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.121122Copy Quote
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.117118Copy Quote
Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.117118Copy Quote
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
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Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
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The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.114115Copy Quote
Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.
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The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people.111112Copy Quote
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow.110111Copy Quote
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.110111Copy Quote
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
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We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations109110Copy Quote
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
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Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.
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The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.103104Copy Quote
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.103104Copy Quote
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
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By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
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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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Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
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You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves.101102Copy Quote
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
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I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea. Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it.9495Copy Quote
As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.9495Copy Quote
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There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance - Cesar Chavez Quotes
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The greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I was poor as fuck living on the floor and I had already won. It has nothing to do with money - Mark Cuban.
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