More from Winston Churchill

  1. An old town clerk looking at European affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe
  2. Broadly speaking, short words are the best, and the old words, when short, are best of all.
  3. A nation trying to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to pull himself up by the handles.
  4. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
  5. A modest man, who has much to be modest about.
  6. Dictators ride to and fro on tigers they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
  7. Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. (to be found in 'My Early Life', the story of his first 25 years).
  8. Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

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