Month: November 2025

We have not journeyed all this way across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.

Winston Churchill
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Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never-in nothing, great or small, large or petty-never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.

Winston Churchill
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In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.

Winston Churchill
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“Love and the gracious heart are a single thing… One can no more be without the other Than the reasoning mind without its reason.”

Dante Alighieri
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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

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

Winston Churchill
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Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

Winston Churchill
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Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest.

Plutarch
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Wait for the wisest of all counsellors, Time.

Plutarch
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How strongly does this bear out the truth of Plato’s maxim, that he who wishes to be really rich ought to lessen his desires rather than increase his property, because if a man places no bounds to his covetousness, he never will be free from want and misery.

Plutarch
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