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February 01, 2005

Winston Churchill

[On the qualities needed to be a politician] "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."

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

[On the parliamentary candidate] "He is asked to stand, he wants to sit, he is expected to lie"

"It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly."

[On making speeches] "The art of making deep sounds from the stomach sound like important messages from the brain"

"You will never get to the end of the journey if you stop to shy a stone at every dog that barks."

"Where there is a great deal of free speech, there is always a certain amount of foolish speech."

Posted by pauldavies on February 01, 2005

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