Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The problem of our time is that its men do not want to be useful but important.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The criticisms will not be pleasant, but they are necessary.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The alternation fertilizes the soil of democracy.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Imagination comforts men with what they cannot be. Humor comforts them with what they are.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Democracy is the need to occasionally yield to the opinions of others.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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Courage is what is needed to stand up and speak; but it is also what is required to sit down and listen.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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I have often had to eat my words and have found them to be a balanced diet.

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

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The diplomat is a person who first thinks twice and finally says nothing.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Nature itself has imprinted in everyone's mind the idea of a God.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Freedom only resides in states where the people have supreme power.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The supreme law is the good of the people.