Gee its the quick or the dead around here when it comes to posting great quotes.
Here are my picks from Winston Churchill.
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.
This is the quote in full. The last sentenced seems to be quoted the most rather then the quote as a whole. I certainly subscribe to Churchill
thinking and in today world it as an important as ever.
This one is more obscure but it is spoken by Churchhill and deals with who I regard as one of the most fascinating figures of the 20th century .
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels
not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some
one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.
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Spoken at the unveiling of a memorial dedicated to T. E. Lawrence . While I cant say that the above quote reflects on my nature in an era of fat
bonuses for company directors and outsourcing it really strikes home to me.
And finally from the man himself in A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
# No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short
lives. Five years is a lot. Twenty years is the horizon to most people. Fifty years is antiquity.
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To read the full quote click on the link.
Wise words need I say more ?
[edit on 16-3-2008 by xpert11]
[edit on 16-3-2008 by xpert11]
