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These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston Churchill
Country
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill
Greatness
Responsibility
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Winston Churchill
Victory
Defeat
Problems
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
Winston Churchill
Fear
Being
Extremes
Meaning
Sense
Writer
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Winston Churchill
Old
Words
The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
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Truth
End
Ignorance
Malice
May
There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
Winston Churchill
Lies
World
There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
Winston Churchill
Kissing
There is no such thing as a good tax.
Winston Churchill
Tax
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
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Power
Man
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
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Nothing
Result
The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
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Defense
Departure
Enemy
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
Winston Churchill
Time
Comfort
This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
Winston Churchill
Being
Risk
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
Winston Churchill
Opinion
Public
Public opinion