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1874–1965 England
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill KG OM CH TD FRS PC (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Churchill was a Sandhurst-educated soldier, a Nobel Prize-winning writer and historian, a prolific painter, and one of the longest-serving politicians in British history.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Misattributed to Winston Churchill in The Prodigal Project : Book I : Genesis (2003)
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Misattributed
There is nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.
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I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.
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"The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash."
Attributed
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
Misattributed
Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.
Disputed
Hence, we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but that heroes fight like Greeks.
Disputed
Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.
Disputed
If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
Misattributed
People often forget that in 1940 there was no guarantee that we were going to win.
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Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Disputed
All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.
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Americans Will Always Do the Right Thing — After Exhausting All the Alternatives.
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Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm
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I am quite satisfied with my views of India. I don’t want them disturbed by any bloody Indian.
Disputed
There is no such thing as a good tax.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter
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The heaviest cross I have to bear is the Cross of Lorraine.
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