Quotes by Winston Churchill

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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
 
When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
 
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
 
The truth is so precious that it must be guarded by a vast bodyguard of lies.
 
It's not good enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
 
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
 
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
 
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
 
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
 
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
 
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