Winston Churchill Quotes on Character

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  1. The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

  2. We will not say thereafter that the Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like the Greeks!

  3. A modest man, who has much to be modest about.

  4. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

  5. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

  6. I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

  7. There's less to him than meets the eye.

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