Success is never final.

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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.

Sir Winston Churchill
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -Sir Winston Churchill
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For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Sir Winston Churchill
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It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.

Sir Winston Churchill
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Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. -Sir Winston Churchill
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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Sir Winston Churchill
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. -Sir Winston Churchill
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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.

Sir Winston Churchill
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It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. -Sir Winston Churchill
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Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Sir Winston Churchill
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I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

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It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled. -Sir Winston Churchill
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All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Sir Winston Churchill
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There but for the grace of God goes God.

Sir Winston Churchill
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If heaven is going to be full of people like Hardie, well, the Almighty can have them to himself. -Sir Winston Churchill
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Who will relieve me of this Wuthering Height.

Sir Winston Churchill
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[He] looks at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

Sir Winston Churchill
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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. -Sir Winston Churchill
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Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.

Sir Winston Churchill
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Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination.

Sir Winston Churchill
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There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. -Sir Winston Churchill
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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.

Sir Winston Churchill
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Sir Winston Churchill
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. -Sir Winston Churchill
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Sir Winston Churchill
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Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few.

Sir Winston Churchill
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I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.' -Sir Winston Churchill
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