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"If you put two economists in a room, you get two opinions, unless one of them is Lord Keynes, in which case you get three opinions."
Winston Churchill
John Maynard Keynes
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill
Fanatics and Fanaticism
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A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
Winston Churchill
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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Winston Churchill
Mistakes
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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill
Simplicity
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Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
Winston Churchill
Nuclear Age
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Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal.
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Animal
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill
Compromise
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Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.
Winston Churchill
Politicians and Politics
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Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.
Winston Churchill
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Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe.
Winston Churchill
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Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Courage
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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
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Courage
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
Winston Churchill
Courage
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Danger -- if you meet it promptly and without flinching -- you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
Winston Churchill
Danger
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Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Winston Churchill
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount.
Winston Churchill
Dictators and Dictatorship
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
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Difficulties
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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
Winston Churchill
Service
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Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Winston Churchill
Words
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill
History and Historians
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For myself I am an optimistit does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
Winston Churchill
Grammar
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Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
Winston Churchill
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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
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Golf
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Virtue
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He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.
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Modesty
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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job.
Winston Churchill
Courage
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I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.
Winston Churchill
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill
Optimism
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I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill
Satisfaction
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I am most anxious that in dealing with matters which every Member knows are extremely delicate matters, I should not use any phrase or expression which would cause offence to our friends and Allies on the Continent or across the Atlantic Ocean.
Winston Churchill
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I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill
Death and Dying
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I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
Winston Churchill
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill
Color
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I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.
Winston Churchill
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I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
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Alcohol and Alcoholism
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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
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Expression
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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Winston Churchill
Words
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I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Winston Churchill
Courage
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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston Churchill
Alcohol and Alcoholism
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I never worry about action, but only inaction.
Winston Churchill
Action
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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
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Leaders and Leadership
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I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
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I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
Winston Churchill
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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
Winston Churchill
Planning
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If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
Winston Churchill
Wife
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
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God
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If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another
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Humankind
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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill
Time and Time Management
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If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care.
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If you hadnt entered the World War we would have made peace with Germany early in 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by communism, no break-down in Italy followed by fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned nazi-ism in Germany. In other words, if America had stayed out of the war all of these isms wouldnt today be sweeping the Continent of Europe and breaking down parliamentary government, and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over 1,000,000 British, French, American, and other lives.
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.
Winston Churchill
Speakers and Speaking
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
Winston Churchill
Knowledge
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In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used frequently to take my advice.
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Advice
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
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Adaptability
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In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times.
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Politicians and Politics
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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
Winston Churchill
Attitude
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In War: ResolutionIn Defeat: DefianceIn Victory: MagnanimityIn Peace: Good Will
Winston Churchill
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It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
Winston Churchill
Slavery
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It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Winston Churchill
Democracy
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
Winston Churchill
Honesty
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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.
Winston Churchill
Quotation
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
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Planning
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
Winston Churchill
Communism and Socialism
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It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat.
Winston Churchill
Betrayal
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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
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Fear
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It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
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Charity
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It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace.
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It's no use saying, We are doing our best. You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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Achievement
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Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.
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Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
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Worry
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
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Heroes and Heroism
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Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.
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Logic
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Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
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Humankind
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
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Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
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Government
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Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
Winston Churchill
President
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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Truth
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Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
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Intention
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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill
Achievement
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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.
Winston Churchill
Perseverance
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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill
Heroes and Heroism
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Never, never, never give up.
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Never, never, never, never give up.
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Perseverance
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No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
Winston Churchill
Expression
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No crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston Churchill
Risk
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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
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Ideals and Idealism
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No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
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Agreement
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilisation.
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill
Democracy
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Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
Winston Churchill
Vengeance
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Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture.
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Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.
Winston Churchill
Danger
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Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
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Once upon a time all the animals in the zoo decided that they would disarm, and they arranged to have a conference to arrange the matter. So the Rhinoceros said when he opened the proceedings that the use of teeth was barbarous and horrible and ought to be strictly prohibited by general consent. Horns, which were mainly defensive weapons, would, of course, have to be allowed. The Buffalo, the Stag, the Porcupine, and even the little Hedgehog all said they would vote with the Rhino, but the Lion and the Tiger took a different view. They defended teeth and even claws, which they described as honourable weapons of immemorial antiquity. The Panther, the Leopard, the Puma, and the whole tribe of small cats all supported the Lion and the Tiger. Then the Bear spoke. He proposed that both teeth and horns should be banned and never used again for fighting by any animal. It would be quite enough if animals were allowed to give each other a good hug when they quarreled. No one could object to that. It was so fraternal, and that would be a great step towards peace. However, all the other animals were very offended with the Bear, and the Turkey fell into a perfect panic. The discussion got so hot and angry, and all those animals began thinking so much about horns and teeth and hugging when they argued about the peaceful intentions that had brought them together that they began to look at one another in a very nasty way. Luckily the keepers were able to calm them down and persuade them to go back quietly to their cages, and they began to feel quite friendly with one another again.
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One woman who managed to corner him, the story runs, said in a treacly gushing voice:Doesnt it thrill you, Mr. Churchill, to know that every time you make a speech the hall is packed to overflowing?It is quite flattering, Mr. Churchill replied, but whenever I feel this way I always remember that if instead of making a political speech I was being hanged, the crowd would be twice as big.
Winston Churchill
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