Quote by Winston Churchill (about Optimism, Pessimism)

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

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All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

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But let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age.

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You ask what is our aim? I can answer in one word: 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.

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

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Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family.

Winston Churchill - September 1941

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We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and 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, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.

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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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I could not live without Champagne. In victory I deserve it, in defeat I need it.

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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

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I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

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You see things; and you say 'Why?"
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If Putin were to win this war, what sign would that be for other dictators in the world like Xi, like the Chinese President? So therefore Ukraine has to win this war.

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We've been lied to a lot by the Kreml for at least one-and-a-half years. So obviously, the whole world looks at the Kreml when a former close confidant of Putin literally falls out of the sky, two months after he launched a rebellion.

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This is the dirty work that Israel is doing – for all of us. Otherwise, we might have continued to endure the terror of this regime for months or years – and possibly even with nuclear weapons.

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A change of government is always a test of how mature a country's democracy is — whether the transition happens smoothly, without grandstanding or ambushes from either side. In every respect, I can say: Germany has once again passed this test.

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Power itself isn't good or bad.

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All I say is: China, China, China!

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Quote by Winston Churchill (about Optimism, Pessimism)

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