Winston Churchill
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Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig! He looks you in the eye and treats you as an equal.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
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.
If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.