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30 Churchillisms - SO TRUE..TOO BAD HE'S NOT ALIVE TODAY....
From: Bob Heiser (w7iktfly-web.us)
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 13:43:50 -0800 (PST)

Some real words of wisdom.....








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. - Winston Churchill


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Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions. - Winston Churchill

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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. - Winston Churchill

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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. - Winston Churchill

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You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks. - Winston Churchill

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Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision. - Winston Churchill

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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. - Winston Churchill

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A nation that forgets its past has no future. - Winston Churchill

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The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. - Winston Churchill

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If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain. - Winston Churchill

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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. - Winston Churchill

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There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place. - Winston Churchill

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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. - Winston Churchill

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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest - Winston Churchill

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. - Winston Churchill

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If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea. - Winston Churchill

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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been - Winston Churchill

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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. - Winston Churchill

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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. - Winston Churchill

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You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. - Winston Churchill

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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Winston Churchill

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Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. - Winston Churchill

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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. - Winston Churchill

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I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me. - Winston Churchill

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Islam is more dangerous in a man than rabies in a dog. - Winston Churchill

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In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. - Winston Churchill

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Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. - Winston Churchill

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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill



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