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> [“Delight in smooth-sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation, obvious lack of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/delight-in-smooth-sounding-platitudes-refusal-to-face-unpleasant/)

[Winston S. Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-s-churchill/)

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## More by Winston S. Churchill

> [“Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/still-it-is-the-primary-right-of-men-to-die-and-kill-for-the-land/)

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> [“Time after time, history ran over the luddites and romanticists, those who sought to restore the old and delay the new. And every time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/time-after-time-history-ran-over-the-luddites-and-romanticists-those/)

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> [“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/the-farther-backward-you-can-look-the-farther-forward-you-are-likely/)

[Winston S. Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-s-churchill/)

> [“Delight in smooth-sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts, desire for popularity and electoral success irrespective of the vital interests of the State, genuine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/delight-in-smooth-sounding-platitudes-refusal-to-face-unpleasant/)

[Winston S. Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-s-churchill/)

> [“You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/you-will-make-all-kinds-of-mistakes-but-as-long-as-you-are-generous/)

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> [“In the middle of April the Germans took a sombre decision. Ludendorff refers to it with bated breath. ... They transported Lenin in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/in-the-middle-of-april-the-germans-took-a-sombre-decision-ludendorff/)

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> [“St Patrick was a Roman Briton of good family dwelling probably in the Severn valley.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/st-patrick-was-a-roman-briton-of-good-family-dwelling-probably-in-the/)

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> [“The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/the-optimist-sees-opportunity-in-every-danger-the-pessimist-sees/)

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> [“Resposibility is the price of greatness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/resposibility-is-the-price-of-greatness/)

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> [“In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/in-the-long-years-to-come-not-only-will-the-people-of-this-island-but/)

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> [“If you are going to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/if-you-are-going-to-kill-a-man-it-costs-nothing-to-be-polite/)

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> [“This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/this-is-not-the-end-this-is-not-even-the-beginning-of-the-end-this-is/)

[Winston S. Churchill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/winston-s-churchill/)

> [“Occasionally a man stumbles over the truth. Most dust themselves off and continue walking as though nothing had happened.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/occasionally-a-man-stumbles-over-the-truth-most-dust-themselves-off/)

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> [“It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/it-is-a-mistake-to-try-to-look-too-far-ahead-the-chain-of-destiny-can/)

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> [“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/winston-s-churchill/we-sleep-safely-at-night-because-rough-men-stand-ready-to-visit/)

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