Tao Te Ching
Winston Churchill
1874 – 1965 CE
At the top of world politics for 50 years and one of the most influential leaders in all history, Churchill was also an accomplished artist, an author who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and amateur bricklayer who bred butterflies. A Cassandra of his time, he very early and almost alone warned of Hitler and Nazi Germany, Stalin and the Soviet threat, and Gandhi’s approach to Indian Independence leading to the Islamic consequences we’re suffering today. Overcoming a serious speech impediment, his radio broadcasts and communications held Britain together when they were standing almost alone against Hitler, helped bring vital US support, and win WW II.
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British Politicians
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Gilded Age (1860 – 1900 CE)
Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Victorian (1837 – 1901 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Chinese
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Unlisted Sources
Independence (1764)
Radio broadcast (1941)
The Story of the Malakand Field Force
Quotes by Winston Churchill (32 quotes)
“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
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18. The Sick Society
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“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
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65. Simplicity: the Hidden Power of Goodness
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“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”
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23. Nothing and Not
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“All of the great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.”
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80. A Golden Age
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
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36. The Small, Dark Light
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“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
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41. Distilled Life
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“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
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53. Shameless Thieves
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“Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.”
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18. The Sick Society
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“Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.”
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56. One with the Dust
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“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
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41. Distilled Life
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“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
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50. Claws and Swords
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“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.”
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57. Wu Wei
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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13. Honor and Disgrace
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“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
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43. No Effort, No Trace
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“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”
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49. No Set Mind
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“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
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75. Greed
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“We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.”
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20. Unconventional Mind
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“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”
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77. Stringing a Bow
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“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.”
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69. No Enemy
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“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”
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46. Enough
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“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
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9. Know When to Stop
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
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“The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.”
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“[The Great Gatsby—] a story of class warfare in a nation that denies it even has a class system, in which the game is eternally rigged for the rich to win.”
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“If anything happened to that man ... I couldn't stand it. He is the truest friend; he has the farthest vision; he is the greatest man I have ever known.”
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“But the Mohammedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness... The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.”
from The Story of the Malakand Field Force
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“In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. All rational considerations are forgotten... Thus whole nations are roused to arms.”
from The Story of the Malakand Field Force
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“Some people like the Jews, and some do not. But no thoughtful man can deny the fact that they are, beyond any question, the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has appeared in the world.”
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“Virgil loved rural ease, and, far from harm,
Maecenas fix'd him in a neat, snug farm,
Where he might free from trouble pass his days
In his own way, and pay his rent in praise.
Charles Churchill,”
from Independence (1764)
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“Hitler is a monster of wickedness, insatiable in his lust for blood and plunder. Not content with having all Europe under his heel, or else terrorized into various forms of abject submission, he must now carry his work of butchery and desolation among the vast multitudes of Russia and of Asia... this bloodthirsty guttersnipe must launch his mechanized armies upon new fields of slaughter, pillage and devastation.”
from Radio broadcast (1941)
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“There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues… are created, strengthened and maintained.”
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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.”
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Quotes about Winston Churchill (2 quotes)
“Winston Churchill, whose speeches were in themselves part of Britain’s defenses… and there had been no such complete enrollment of all citizens since the days of Sparta… But words, no more than money, win wars.”
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“In my own vocation of historian, I am impressed by the leadership of the great amateurs... in the original sense of the word ’amateur,’—a lover of the subject—these people tried what the professionals would not dare. Among the great amateurs are Edward Gibbon, Winston Churchill, and Henry Adams.”
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