All attempts to bridge a twelve-foot stream by an eight-foot plank are doomed to failure, and the plank is lost.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 24 March 1938

I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

Winston Churchill · Article “Consistency in Politics”, Pall Mall, July 1927

Winston Churchill · To Michael Collins, who complained that a price had been put on his head

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