![]() ![]() "Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.".But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half." ![]() If you do that, you will double the danger. "One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it."Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."."Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."."The price of greatness is responsibility."."The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see."."To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to change often.".To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day." "To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years."There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."."It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.".Although this first one is almost too apt: In fact, the tricky bit is choosing which ones to leave out. In his 90 years as a soldier, journalist, prolific author, politician and statesman during the first half of the 20th century, Winston Churchill had many opportunities to influence world events, and while opinions on his various successes and failures can be steeply divided, his was a hard-won wisdom, which he expressed with great pith and wit.īeing a natural statesman, and a great writer to boot, he was very good at putting that wisdom to use, and there are so many quotable examples from his various speeches and public comments that it's easy to compile a list of his most inspirational thoughts, the ones that would apply to a multitude of situations, to be issued on Winston Churchill Day (which is April 9). ![]()
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