Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."	Change
"Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."	Evil, Excellence, Glory
"In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing."	Faith, Lies, Sin
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."	Life
"When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone."	Desires, Wants
"We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm."	Lies
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."	Miscellaneous
"The substance of the eminent Socialist gentleman's speech is that making a profit is a sin, but it is my belief that the real sin is taking a loss."	Faith, Lies, Men
"For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else."	Miscellaneous
"Never give in, never, never, never, never; in nothing, great or small--never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense."	Evil, Excellence, Quitting
"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."	Evil, Excellence, Glory
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."	Argument, Confidence, Conflict
"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses."	Monarchy, Socialism
"The maxim of the British people is 'Business as Usual.'"	Sin
"When I look back on all the worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened."	Age, Death, Life
"Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."	Honesty, Men, Truth
"I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."	Age, Death, Desires
"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"	Duty, Men, Time
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."	Miscellaneous
"The heights of great men reached and kept, Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night."	Darkness, Excellence, Light
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Argument	Art	Beginnings
Capitalism	Change	Confidence
Conflict	Courage	Criticism
Darkness	Death	Desires
Destruction	Dictatorship	Difficulty
Duty	Equality	Evil
Excellence	Failure	Faith
Fear	Glory	Greatness
History	Honesty	Honor
Hope	Intentions	Knowledge
Learning	Lies	Life
Light	Memory	Men
Military	Miscellaneous	Monarchy
Opportunity	Politics	Quitting
Reading	Responsibility	Sin
Socialism	Strength	Success
Time	Truth	Virtue
Wants	War	Wisdom
Wishing	Writing