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Quote of Winston Churchill - Politics is the ability to foretell...


Biography - Winston Churchill:

British politician and statesman.
Born: 1874 - Died: 1965
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
United Kingdom

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.



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Quotes for: politics


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Quotes for: politics


Man is by nature a political animal.





Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.





Article II – The goal of any political association is the conservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, safety and resistance against oppression.





In affairs of state the principles and the foundations must be truth and justice.





My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.





Politics have no relation to morals.











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Quotes for: ability


Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.





We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.





The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.





Article VI – The law is the expression of the general will. All the citizens have the right of contributing personally or through their representatives to its formation. It must be the same for all, either that it protects, or that it punishes. All the citizens, being equal in its eyes, are equally admissible to all public dignities, places and employments, according to their capacity and without distinction other than that of their virtues and of their talents.





It is better to trust in ability than in luck.





The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future.











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Winston Churchill also said...


Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.





The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.





Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.





The price of greatness is responsibility.





Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.





For myself I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.












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