Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill

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"A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal."	Equality, Men
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."	Change
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."	Honesty, Lies, Opportunity
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."	Adversity, Difficulty, Opportunity
"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed."	Art
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."	Hope, Wishing
"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."	Art, Men
"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."	Time
"Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."	Change
"For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else."	Miscellaneous
"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."	Miscellaneous
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."	Virtue
"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it."	History, Intentions, Writing
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."	Excellence, Reading
"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."	Miscellaneous
"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
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."	Miscellaneous
"In my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you also understand the most amusing."	Faith, Lies, Sin
"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider the real vice is making losses."	Monarchy, Socialism
"It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic."	Criticism, Monarchy
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Light	Memory	Men
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