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The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

Winston Churchill

Power

Force

Nothing

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

Winston Churchill

Opportunity

Difficulty

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

Winston Churchill

Peace

War

The first quality that is needed is audacity.

Winston Churchill

Quality

First

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

Future

Mind

The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Winston Churchill

Being

Risk

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Winston Churchill

English

Irish

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Winston Churchill

Life

Enemies