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Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston Churchill

Attitude

Difference

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

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Danger

Will

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

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Crime

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.

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War

Man

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

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Politics

War

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

Winston Churchill

Play

Will

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

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Being

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

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Right

Wrong

A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.