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Winston Churchill

Conservative PartyRightUnited Kingdom52 citations

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

Source : The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War(1898), Chapter X

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.

Source : Newspaper interview (1902), when asked what qualities a politician required, Halle, Kay, Irrepressible Churchill. Cleveland: World, 1966. cited inChurchill by Himself(2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, p. 489ISBN 1586486381

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and – quite as dangerous ... [I]n war, you can only be killed once. But in politics many times.

Source : From a conversational exchange with Harold Begbie, as cited inMaster Workers, Begbie, Methuen & Co. (1906), p. 177.

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