The price of greatness is responsibility.
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Winston ChurchillSpeech at Harvard University (1943)
About Winston Churchill
British Prime Minister who led the United Kingdom through World War II. (1874-1965)
More from Winston Churchill
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.First speech as Prime Minister, House of Commons (1940)
- Never give in, never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.Speech at Harrow School (1941)
- We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.Speech in the House of Commons (4 June 1940)
- Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'Speech in the House of Commons (18 June 1940)
- Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.Speech at the Lord Mayor's Luncheon, Mansion House (1942)
- Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees all others.'Great Contemporaries (1937)
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- The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.Martin Luther King Jr.
- Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.Martin Luther King Jr.
- Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus, but a molder of consensus.Martin Luther King Jr.
- The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.Frederick Douglass
- I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger.Harriet Tubman
- We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.John Lewis
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