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There are a terrible lot of lies going round the world, and the worst of it is that they're true.

Although prepared for martyrdom, I prefer that it be postponed.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said, namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to give the roar.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

'I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using against uncivilised tribes.' ********** Winston Churchill, Secretary of State, British War Office, 1919, authorising use of chemical weapons against Iraqis.. in the first of 6 invasions of Iraq by agents of Anglo Iranian Oil in the last 100 years.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. -Winston Churchill.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

The farther back you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.