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Quotations
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English
Politician,
Author,
Artist and
Nobleman
"Advertising nourishes the consuming power of men. It sets up before a man the goal of a better home, better clothing, better food for himself and his family. It spurs individual exertion and greater production." "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last." "Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference." "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." "By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach." "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." "Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." "The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man." "Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!" "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." "Difficulties mastered are opportunities won." "Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb." "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." "However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat." "I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." "I never worry about action, but only inaction." "If you are going through hell, keep going." "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." "It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right." "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more." "It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive." "It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do." "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." "Never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." "The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself." "The price of greatness is responsibility." "Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong." "Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon." "Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam." "Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." "To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." "True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information." "Truth is incontrovertible; malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it; but, in the end; there it is." "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." "When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened." "Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed." "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
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