I never worry about action, but only inaction.
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Action   
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We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic.
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Logic   
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
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War   
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Work: Speech in March 1946
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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Duty   
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To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
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Destruction   
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Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
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Words   
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
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Progress   
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I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
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Words   
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Most people stumble over the truth, now and then, but they usually manage to pick themselves up and go on, anyway.
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Truth   
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When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
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War   
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Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Subject:
Motivational   
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Work: Radio speech, 1941
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Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending-sit down.
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English   
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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Optimism   
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
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Writing   
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No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
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Idea   
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Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
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Advice   
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
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Drinking   
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years men will still say, "This was their finest hour."
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Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Subject:
War   
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Work: Speech in November 1942
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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 other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Subject:
Democracy   
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Work: Hansard, November 11, 1947
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