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Many Forms Of Government Have Been Tried, And Will Be Tried In This World Of Sin And Woe. No One Pretends That Democracy Is Perfect Or All-wise. Indeed, It Has Been Said That Democracy Is The Worst Form Of Government Except All Those Others That Have Been

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Many Forms Of Government

Winston Churchill

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Many Forms Of Government Have Been Tried, And Will Be Tried In This World Of Sin And Woe. No One Pretends That Democracy Is Perfect Or All-wise. Indeed, It Has Been Said That Democracy Is The Worst Form Of Government Except All Those Others That Have Been

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If You Want Me To Speak For Two Minutes, It Will Take Me Three Weeks Of Preparation. If You Want Me To Speak For Thirty Minutes, It Will Take Me A Week To Prepare. If You Want Me To Speak For An Hour, I Am Ready Now.

When I Get To Heaven I Mean To Spend A Considerable Portion Of My First Million Years In Painting, And So Get To The Bottom Of The Subject.

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Out Of Intense Complexities Intense Simplicities Emerge. Broadly Speaking, The Short Words Are The Best, And The Old Words When Short Are Best Of All.

I Do Not Understand This Squeamishness About The Use Of Gas. We Have Definitely Adopted The Position At The Peace Conference Of Arguing In Favour Of The Retention Of Gas As A Permanent Method Of Warfare. It Is Sheer Affectation To Lacerate A Man With The Poisonous Fragment Of A Bursting Shell And To Boggle At Making His Eyes Water By Means Of Lachrymatory Gas.

It Happens That Once We Learn A Thing, The Motivation To Keep It Up Grows And Expands Further As Well. If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

This Movement Among The Jews Is Not New... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilisation And For The Reconstitution Of Society On The Basis Of Arrested Development, Of Envious Malevolence, And Impossible Equality, Has Been Steadily Growing... It Has Been The Mainspring Of Every Subversive Movement During The Nineteenth Century.

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No Stronger Retrograde Force Exists In The World. Far From Being Moribund, Mohammedanism Is A Militant And Proselytizing Faith.

Let Our Advance Worrying Become Advance Thinking And Planning.

It Is No Use Doing What You Like; You Have Got To Like What You Do.

We Shall Come Through! We Cannot Tell When, We Cannot Tell How, But We Shall Come Through.

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They Had Bombed London, Whether On Purpose Or Not, And The British People And London Especially Should Know That We Could Hit Back. It Would Be Good For The Morale Of Us All.

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