Everyone is in favor of free speech. Har... by Winston Churchill

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Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

- Winston Churchill

Other quotes by Winston Churchill

Dinner would have been splendid... if the wine had been as cold as the soup, the beef as rare as the service, the brandy as old as the fish, and the maid as willing as the Duchess.

- Winston Churchill

A preposition is a terrible thing to end a sentence with.

- Winston Churchill

War

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

- Winston Churchill

Victory Defeat

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

- Winston Churchill

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

- Winston Churchill

Alcohol

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

- Winston Churchill

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