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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 other forms that have been tried from time to time."
- Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 11, 1947, More quotation on Democracy. | |
"So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."
- Sir Winston Churchill, Hansard, November 12, 1936, More quotation on Government. | |
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
- Sir Winston Churchill. | |
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill, More quotation on Lies. | |
"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed."
- Sir Winston Churchill. | |
"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."
- Sir Winston Churchill, More quotation on Language. | |
"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."
- Sir Winston Churchill. | |
"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."
- Sir Winston Churchill, More quotation on Progress. | |
"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
- Sir Winston Churchill. | |
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Sir Winston Churchill. |
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