“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
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Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, FRS was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, writer and artist. To date, he is the only British Prime Minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and the first person to be recognised as an honorary citizen of the United States.
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“The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
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“Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.”
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“Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.”
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“Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest h...”
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“We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island...”
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“War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.”
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“No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.”
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“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.”
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“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”
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“You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory,...”
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“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”
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“Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.”
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
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“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”
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“How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic a...”
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“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the...”
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“I'm bored with it all. - Last Words”
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“As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.”
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“Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you...”
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“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
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