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Winston Churchill
British
Statesman
Born:
Nov 30
,
1874
Died:
Jan 24
,
1965
Am
Great
Politics
War
Will
You
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It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Winston Churchill
Success
Saying
Best
You
Our
Got
Doing
Succeed
Use
Necessary
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill
You
Backward
See
Look
Farther
Forward
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill
Only
Opinion
Public
Public Opinion
Published
Thing
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.
Winston Churchill
Man
Prosperity
Try
Nation
Lift
Bucket
Like
Himself
Contend
Up
Itself
Handle
Trying
Tax
Standing
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Winston Churchill
Bit
Always
Saint Patrick's Day
Odd
Irish
Refuse
English
Found
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
Change
Mind
His
Subject
Fanatic
Who
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.
Winston Churchill
Survival
Victory
Long
Costs
Spite
Road
Without
Terror
However
May
Hard
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill
Inside
Wrapped
Russia
Mystery
Riddle
Enigma
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Winston Churchill
Words
Those
Slip
Out
Unsaid
Masters
Slaves
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill
Time
You
Communication
Try
Important
Clever
Tremendous
Back
Once
Point
Driver
Come
Make
Pile
Hit
Whack
Subtle
Again
Then
Use
Third
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
Winston Churchill
Politics
You
Respect
Law
Destroy
Thousand
Ten
Regulations
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
Too Much
Too
Else
Seem
Does
Am
Optimist
Being
Anything
Anything Else
Much
Use
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
You
Try
Will
Half
Meet
Ought
Back
Danger
Run
Threatened
Promptly
Never
Without
Reduce
Anything
Turn
Double
Away
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill
Our
Shape
Buildings
Us
Thereafter
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill
Politics
Country
Healthy
Citizens
Greatest
Greatest Asset
Any
Asset
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Winston Churchill
Survival
Heart
Suffering
Draw
Shall
Inspiration
Itself
Means
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.
Winston Churchill
Business
People
Some People
Healthy
Enough
Others
Enough People
Enterprise
See
Some
Horse
Look
Tiger
Wagon
Private
Private Enterprise
Cow
Predatory
Regard
Shot
Milk
Pulling
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.
Winston Churchill
Needs
Tomorrow
Year
Politician
Month
Ability
Week
Foretell
Going
Happen
Afterwards
Explain
Next
Next Year
Why
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
Winston Churchill
Opportunities
Difficulties
Mastered
Won
History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill
History
Written
Victors
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
Winston Churchill
History
Secrets
Lies
Study
Study History
Politics is 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.
Winston Churchill
Politics
Tomorrow
Year
Month
Ability
Week
Foretell
Going
Happen
Afterwards
Explain
Next
Next Year
Why
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Winston Churchill
Organ
Monkey
Never
Discussions
Hold
Room
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill
Life
Result
Nothing
Without
Exhilarating
Shot
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
Winston Churchill
You
Wise
Difficult
Further
See
Look
Always
Than
Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.
Winston Churchill
History
Simple
Confusion
Action
Thinking
Strikes
Would
Would-Be
Constitute
Emergency
Features
Counsel
Clear
Until
Self-Preservation
Effective
Repetition
Foresight
Endless
Lack
Want
Which
Gong
Jarring
Act
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