Winston Churchill Quotes, Unique Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

There comes a precious moment in all of our lives when we are tapped on the shoulder and offered the opportunity to do something very special that is unique to us and our abilities, what a tragedy it would be if we are not ready or willing.

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It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless.

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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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The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

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An iron curtain has descended over Europe.

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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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He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.

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I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

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Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.

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And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

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...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation... this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

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With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century

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We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

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My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star.

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Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native resource. The Geological Survey had identified the inflammable oil shale in reports since at least 1888.]

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Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.

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Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.

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We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.

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Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

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You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

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