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Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

— Winston Churchill

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For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.

The Second World War (book series) (1948)

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others.

To improve is to change, so to be perfect is to have changed often.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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