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The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]

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The greatest advances in human civilization have come when we recovered what we had lost: when we learned the lessons of history.

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I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

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It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

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A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

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In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war.

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I never slept as soundly as the night following Pearl Harbor. For I knew that The American Race would now be entering the war and it would never be the same.

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I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.

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Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed.

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Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.

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All babies look like me. But then, I look like all babies.

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For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.

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There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

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Bessie Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk. Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober.

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Plans are of little importance, but planning is essential.

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Renown awaits the commander who first restores artillery to its prime importance on the battlefield.

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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

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Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.

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I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as ‘The Boneless Wonder’. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.

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Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

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