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Danger Gathers Upon Our Path. We Cannot Afford - We Have No Right - To Look Back. We Must Look Forward... The Stronger The Advocate Of Monarchical Principle A Man May Be, The More Zealously He Must Now Endeavor To Fortify The Throne And To Give To His Majesty's Successor That Strength Which Can Only Come From The Love Of A United Nation And Empire.

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Danger Gathers Upon Our Path. We Cannot Afford - We Have No Right - To Look Back. We Must Look Forward... The Stronger The Advocate Of Monarchical Principle A Man May Be, The More Zealously He Must Now Endeavor To Fortify The Throne And To Give To His Majesty's Successor That Strength Which Can Only Come From The Love Of A United Nation And Empire.

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We Shall Not Fail Or Falter; We Shall Not Weaken Or Tire. Neither The Sudden Shock Of Battle, Nor The Long-drawn Trials Of Vigilance And Exertion Will Wear Us Down. Give Us The Tools And We Will Finish The Job.

Saving Is A Fine Thing. Especially When Your Parents Have Done It For You.

The Worst Mistake That A Statesman Can Make Is To Promise Victory And To See It Dashed, The Hopes Dashed.

Christopher Columbus Was The First Socialist: He Didn't Know Where He Was Going, He Didn?t Know Where He Was? And He Did It All At Taxpayers Expense.

If You Are Going Through Hell Just Keep Going

The V Sign Is The Symbol Of The Unconquerable Will Of The Occupied Territories, And A Portent Of The Fate Awaiting The Nazi Tyranny.

Unconquerable Will

In Success You Deserve It And In Defeat, You Need It.

We Must Beware Of Trying To Build A Society In Which Nobody Counts For Anything Except A Politician Or An Official, A Society Where Enterprise Gains No Reward And Thrift No Privileges

I Have Always Noticed That Whenever A Radical Takes To Imperialism, He Catches It In A Very Acute Form.

There Is No Surer Method Of Economizing And Saving Money Than In The Reduction Of The Number Of Officials.

If One Has To Submit, It Is Wasteful Not To Do So With The Best Grace Possible.

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To Improve Is To Change.

How I Hated Schools, And What A Life Of Anxiety I Lived There. I Counted The Hours To The End Of Every Term, When I Should Return Home.

When I Was Younger I Made It A Rule Never To Take Strong Drink Before Lunch. It Is Now My Rule Never To Do So Before Breakfast.

The Opposition Occupies The Benches In Front Of You, But The Enemy Sits Behind You

We Must Never Cease To Proclaim In Fearless Tones The Great Principles Of Freedom And The Rights Of Man Which Are The Joint Inheritance Of The English-speaking World And Which Through Magna Carta, The Bill Of Rights, The Habeas Corpus, Trial By Jury, And The English Common Law Find Their Most Famous Expression In The American Declaration Of Independence.

Watch Your Actions, They Become Your Habits.

Go Into The Sunshine And Be Happy With What You See.

War Is Mainly A Catalogue Of Blunders.

It Is Very Easy To Say That Your Opponents Have Been Guilty Of A Breach Of Faith, But It Is A Great Mistake To Splash The Paint About So Freely That Your Words Cease To Have Any Real Meaning And Cease To Carry Any Sense Of Affront Even To Those To Whom They Are Applied And Cease To Bear Any Connection With Any Genuine Feeling Of Indignation On The Part Of Those On Whose Behalf They Are Spoken.

I Do Not Understand This Squeamishness About The Use Of Gas... I Am Strongly In Favour Of Using Poisoned Gas Against Uncivilised Tribes... It Is Not Necessary To Use Only The Most Deadly Gases: Gases Can Be Used Which Cause Great Inconvenience And Would Spread A Lively Terror And Yet Would Leave No Serious Permanent Effects On Most Of Those Affected.

There Is Not One Single Social Or Economic Principle Or Concept In The Philosophy Of The Russian Bolshevik Which Has Not Been Realized, Carried Into Action, And Enshrined In Immutable Laws A Million Years Ago By The White Ant.

We Shall Defend Our Island, Whatever The Cost May Be, 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.

The Greatest Advances In Human Civilization Have Come When We Recovered What We Had Lost: When We Learned The Lessons Of History.

And What A Plan! This Vast Operation Is Undoubtedly The Most Complicated And Difficult That Has Ever Occurred.

Far Be It From Me To Paint A Rosy Picture Of The Future...but I Should Be Failing In My Duty If, On The Other Side, I Were Not To Convey The True Impression, That This Great Nation Is Getting Into Its War Stride.

I Should Have Liked To Be Asked To Say What I Knew. They Always Tried To Ask What I Did Not Know. When I Would Have Willingly Displayed My Knowledge, They Sought To Expose My Ignorance. This Sort Of Treatment Had Only One Result: I Did Not Do Well In Examinations

The Painter Wanders And Loiters Contentedly From Place To Place, Always On The Lookout For Some Brilliant Butterfly Of A Picture Which Can Be Caught And Carried Safely Home.

Democracy Is An Awful Way To Run A Country, But It's The Best System We Have.

The Great War Differed From All Ancient Wars In The Immense Power Of The Combatants And Their Fearful Agencies Of Destruction, And From All Modern Wars In The Utter Ruthlessness With Which It Was Fought... Europe And Large Parts Of Asia And Africa Became One Vast Battlefield On Which After Years Of Struggle Not Armies But Nations Broke And Ran. When All Was Over, Torture And Cannibalism Were The Only Two Expedients That The Civilized, Scientific, Christian States Had Been Able To Deny Themselves: And They Were Of Doubtful Utility.

The People Of Asia Were Slaves, Because They Had Not Learned How To Pronounce The Word 'no'.

Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste

Wealth, Taste And Leisure Can Bring Many Things But They Do Not Bring Happiness.

Happy Are The Painters, For They Shall Not Be Lonely.

The Future Is Unknowable, But The Past Should Give Us Hope.

Preposition: An Enormously Versatile Part Of Grammar, As In 'what Made You Pick This Book I Didn't Want To Be Read To Out Of Up For?'

Christmas Is A Season Not Only Of Rejoicing But Of Reflection.

Schools Have Not Necessarily Much To Do With Education...they Are Mainly Institutions Of Control Where Certain Basic Habits Must Be Inculcated In The Young. Education Is Quite Different And Has Little Place In School.

Education And Freedom

If Two People Agree On Everything, One Of Them Is Unnecessary.

If You Travel The Earth, You Will Find It Is Largely Divided Into Two Classes Of People-people Who Say 'i Wonder Why Such And Such Is Not Done" And People Who Say "now Who Is Going To Prevent Me From Doing That Thing?"

Rugby Is A Hooligans Game Played By Gentlemen.

It Is Better To Do The Wrong Thing That To Do Nothing.

The Tank Was Originally Invented To Clear A Way For The Infantry In The Teeth Of Machine-gun Fire. Now It Is The Infantry Who Will Have To Clear A Way For The Tanks.

The One Who Cannot See That On Earth A Big Endeavor Is Taking Place, An Important Plan, On Which Realization We Are Allowed To Collaborate As Faithful Servants, Certainly Has To Be Blind.

Faithful Servants

Civilisation Will Not Last, Freedom Will Not Survive, Peace Will Not Be Kept, Unless A Very Large Majority Of Mankind Unite Together To Defend Them And Show Themselves Possessed Of A Constabulary Power Before Which Barbaric And Atavistic Forces Will Stand In Awe.

Anyone Can Rat, But It Takes A Certain Amount Of Ingenuity To Re-rat.

Plans Are Worthless. Planning Is Priceless.

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

Headmasters Have Powers At Their Disposal With Which Prime Ministers Have Never Yet Been Invested.

There Are Few Virtues That The Poles Do Not Possess And There Are Few Errors They Have Ever Avoided.

My Tastes Are Simple. I Like Only The Very Best.

When Iraq Becomes Strong Enough In Our Opinion To Stand Alone, We Shall Be In A Position To State That Our Task Has Been Fulfilled, And That Iraq Is An Independent Sovereign State. But This Cannot Be Said While We Are Forced Year After Year To Spend Very Large Sums Of Money On Helping The Iraqi Government To Defend Itself And Maintain Order.

The Flame Of Christian Ethics Is Still Our Highest Guide.

Socialism Would Gather All Power To The Supreme Party And Party Leaders, Rising Like Stately Pinnacles Above Their Vast Bureaucracies Of Civil Servants No Longer Servants, No Longer Civil.

I Liked Wine, Both Red And White, And Especially Champagne; And On Very Special Occasions I Could Even Drink A Small Glass Of Brandy.

Manifest Destiny Was On The March, And It Was Unfortunate That Mexico Stood In The Path.

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You Don't Make The Poor Richer By Making The Rich Poorer.

Never Give Up On Something That You Can't Go A Day Without Thinking About.

The Salvation Of The Common People Of Every Race And Of Every Land From War Or Servitude Must Be Established On Solid Foundations And Must Be Guarded By The Readiness Of All Men And Women To Die Rather Than Submit To Tyranny.

Although Personally I Am Quite Content With Existing Explosives, I Feel We Must Not Stand In The Path Of Improvement.

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They Have Done What They Like. Their Difficulty Is To Like What They Have Done.

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God Alone Knows How Great It Is. All I Hope Is That It Is Not Too Late. I Am Very Much Afraid That It Is. We Can Only Do Our Best.

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When They Told Me That By The Year 2100 Women Would Rule The World, My Reply Was 'still?'

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Courage Is The Ability To Go From Failure To Failure With Enthusiasm.

Victory Will Never Be Found By Taking The Path Of Least Resistance.

There Is No Working Middle Course In Wartime.

The Lights Of Saxon England Were Going Out, And In The Gathering Darkness A Gentle, Grey-beard Prophet Foretold The End. When On His Death-bed Edward Spoke Of A Time Of Evil That Was Coming Upon The Land His Inspired Mutterings Struck Terror Into The Hearers.

The Loyalties Which Center Upon Number One Are Enormous. If He Trips, He Must Be Sustained. If He Make Mistakes, They Must Be Covered. If He Sleeps, He Must Not Be Wantonly Disturbed. If He Is No Good, He Must Be Pole-axed.

Dear Citizen, If You Were My Love, I'd Stole Your Money!' Admin If You Were My Love, I Would Ask You For Divorce And Spousal Support!

It Is Sheer Laziness Not Compressing Thought Into A Reasonable Space.

Their Insatiable Lust For Power Is Only Equaled By Their Incurable Impotence In Exercising It.

Democracy Is A Very Bad Form Of Government ... But All The Others Are So Much Worse.

A Man Must Choose His Own Way Of Life, And…it Is Only By Following Out One’s Own Bent That There Can Be The Really Harmonious Life.” [in An Interview Conducted By Bram Stoker]

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Too Often The Strong, Silent Man Is Silent Only Because He Does Not Know What To Say, And Is Reputed Strong Only Because He Has Remained Silent.

I Play For High Stakes And Given An Audience - There Is No Act Too Daring Or Too Noble.

Russia Is A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma.

The Game Of Life Does Not Proceed Like A Mathematical Calculation On The Principle That Two And Two Make Four. Sometimes They Make Five, Or Minus Four, And Sometimes The Blackboard Topples Over In The Middle Of The Sum And The Pedagogue Is Left With A Black Eye.

In Time Of War, Soldiers, However Sensible, Care A Great Deal More On Some Occasions About Slaking Their Thirst Than About The Danger Of Enteric Fever. Better Known As Typhoid, The Disease Is Often Spread By Drinking Contaminated Water.

In Russia A Man Is Called Reactionary If He Objects To Having His Property Stolen And His Wife And Children Murdered.

It Is Not Enough That We Do Our Best; Sometimes We Must Do What Is Required.

A Communist Is Like A Crocodile: When It Opens Its Mouth You Cannot Tell Whether It Is Trying To Smile Or Preparing To Eat You Up.

One Must Regard The Hyphen As A Blemish To Be Avoided Wherever Possible.

When I Warned Them [the French] That Britain Would Fight On Alone Whatever They Did, Their Generals Told Their Prime Minister And His Divided Cabinet, In Three Weeks England Will Have Her Neck Wrung Like A Chicken. Some Chicken! Some Neck!

I Had Been Brought Up And Trained To Have The Utmost Contempt For People Who Got Drunk - And I Would Have Liked To Have The Boozing Scholars Of The Universities Wheeled Into Line And Properly Chastised For Their Squalid Misuse Of What I Must Ever Regard As A Gift Of The Gods.

England Has Been Offered A Choice Between War And Shame. She Has Chosen Shame And Will Get War.

This Is No War Of Chieftains Or Of Princes, Of Dynasties Or National Ambition; It Is A War Of Peoples And Of Causes. There Are Vast Numbers, Not Only In This Island But In Every Land, Who Will Render Faithful Service In This War, But Whose Names Will Never Be Known, Whose Deeds Will Never Be Recorded. This Is A War Of The Unknown Warriors

You Ought To Let The Jews Have Jerusalem; It Is They Who Made It Famous.

After A Time, Civil Servants Tend To Become No Longer Servants And No Longer Civil.

Like A Sea-beast Fished Up From The Depths, Or A Diver Too Suddenly Hoisted, My Veins Threatened To Burst From The Fall In Pressure. I Had Great Anxiety And No Means Of Relieving It ... And Then It Was That The Muse Of Painting Came To My Rescue - Out Of Charity And Out Of Chivalry ... - And Said, "are These Toys Any Good To You? They Amuse Some People."

Everyone Has A Right To Pronounce Foreign Names As He Chooses.

Politics Is Not A Game. It Is An Earnest Business.

It Is A Curious Fact About British Islanders, Who Hate Drill And Have Not Been Invaded For Nearly A Thousand Years, That As Danger Comes Nearer And Grows They Become Progressively Less Nervous; When It Is Imminent The Are Fierce, When It Is Mortal They Are Fearless.

Mr. Chamberlain Loves The Working Man, He Loves To See Him Work.

The Reserve Of Modern Assertions Is Sometimes Pushed To Extremes, In Which The Fear Of Being Contradicted Leads The Writer To Strip Himself Of Almost All Sense And Meaning.

I Neither Want It [brandy] Nor Need It, But I Should Think It Pretty Hazardous To Interfere With The Ineradicable Habit Of A Lifetime.

It Is No Use Saying, 'we Are Doing Our Best.' You Have Got To Succeed In Doing What Is Necessary.

There Is Nothing Government Can Give You That It Hasn't Taken From You In The First Place.

Logic Is A Poor Guide Compared With Custom.

Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow And Sacrifice Will Be Born Again The Glory Of Mankind.

We Are Really Doing Our Very Best. There Are No Doubt Many Mistakes And Shortcomings. A Lot Of Things Are Done None Too Well. Some Things That Ought To Be Done Have Not Yet Been Done...[but Britain's Effort Has] Justly Commanded The Wonder And Admiration Of Every Friendly Nation In The World.

We Have A Very Daring And Skillful Opponent Against Us, And, May I Say Across The Havoc Of War, A Great General.

During Their Lifetimes, Every Man And Woman Will Stumble Across A Great Opportunity. Sadly, Most Of Them Will Simply Pick Themselves Up, Dust Themselves Down And Carry On As If Nothing Ever Happened.

To Achieve The Extirpation Of Nazi Tyranny There Are No Lengths Of Violence To Which We Will Not Go.

Air Superiority Is The Ultimate Expression Of Military Power.

Life Is Fraught With Opportunities To Keep Your Mouth Shut.

It Is All Right To Rat, But You Can't Re-rat.

Never, Never, Never Give Up.

War Is Horrible, But Slavery Is Worse.

If Britain Must Choose Between Europe And The Open Sea, She Must Always Choose The Open Sea.

To Build May Have To Be The Slow And Laborious Task Of Years. To Destroy Can Be The Thoughtless Act Of A Single Day.

A Lie Gets Halfway Around The World Before The Truth Has A Chance To Get Its Pants On.

Don't Be Content To Be The Chip Off The Old Block - Be The Old Block Itself.

I Was Very Glad That Mr. Attlee Described My Speeches In The War As Expressing The Will Not Only Of Parliament But Of The Whole Nation. Their Will Was Resolute And Remorseless And, As It Proved, Unconquerable. It Fell To Me To Express It, And If I Found The Right Words You Must Remember That I Have Always Earned My Living By My Pen And By My Tongue. It Was A Nation And Race Dwelling All Round The Globe That Had The Lion Heart. I Had The Luck To Be Called Upon To Give The Roar.

You Leave Out God, And You Substitute The Devil.

I Felt As If I Were Walking With Destiny, And That All My Past Life Had Been But A Preparation For This Hour And For This Trial... I Thought I Knew A Good Deal About It All, I Was Sure I Should Not Fail.

The Shortest Road To Ruin Is To Emulate The Methods Of Your Adversary.

Fancy Cutting Down All Those Beautiful Trees...to Make Pulp For Those Bloody Newspapers, And Calling It Civilisation.

Writing A Book Is An Adventure. To Begin With It Is A Toy And An Amusement. Then It Becomes A Mistress, Then It Becomes A Master, Then It Becomes A Tyrant. The Last Phase Is That Just As You Are About To Be Reconciled To Your Servitude, You Kill The Monster And Fling Him To The Public.

I Will Not Pretend That If I Had To Choose Between Communism And Nazism I Would Choose Communism.

The Oldest Habit In The World For Resisting Change Is To Complain That Unless The Remedy To The Disease Should Be Universally Applied It Should Not Be Applied At All. But You Must Start Somewhere.

If You Mean To Profit, Learn To Please.

Do What You Like, But Like What You Do.

I Love Learning, But Hate Being Taught.

Who Is Not Liberal When Young, Does Not Have A Heart. Who Is Not Conservative When Old, Does Not Have A Brain.

There Is No Such Thing As A Good Tax.

A Good Party Man Puts His Party Above Himself And His Country Above His Party.

Which Brings Me To My Conclusion Upon Free Will And Predestination, Namely - Let The Reader Mark It - That They Are Identical.

I Have Never Accepted What Many People Have Kindly Said - Namely That I Inspired The Nation. Their Will Was Resolute And Remorseless, And As It Proved, Unconquerable. It Fell To Me To Express It.

Playing Golf Is Like Chasing A Quinine Pill Around A Cow Pasture.

Most People Hate The Taste Of Beer - To Begin With. It Is, However, A Prejudice That Many People Have Been Able To Overcome.

I Am Weary Of A Task Which Is Done And I Hope I Shall Not Shrink When The Aftermath Ends. My Only Wish Is To Live Peacefully Out The Remaining Years - If Years They Be.

A Love Of Tradition Has Never Weakened A Nation.

Watch Your Thoughts, They Become Your Words.

The Only Thing That Ever Really Frightened Me During The War Was The U-boat Peril...it Did Not Take The Form Of Flaring Battles And Glittering Achievements, It Manifested Itself Through Statistics, Diagrams, And Curves Unknown To The Nation, Incomprehensible To The Public.

The Only Thing That Ever Really Frightened Me During The War Was The U-boat Peril.

It Is Not Given To Princes, Statesmen And Captains To Pierce The Mysteries Of The Future, And Even The Most Penetrating Gaze Reaches Only Conclusions Which, However Seemingly Vindicated At A Given Moment, Are Inexorably Effaced By Time.

I Like A Man Who Grins When He Fights.

Delight In Smooth Sounding Platitudes, Refusal To Face Unpleasant Facts ... Genuine Love Of Peace And Pathetic Belief That Love Can Be Its Sole Foundation ... The Utter Devotion Of The Liberals To Sentiment Apart From Reality ...though Free From Wickedness Or Evil Design, Played A Definite Part In The Unleashing Upon The World Of Horrors And Miseries [wwii]

It Seems To Me That The Moment Has Come When The Question Of Bombing Of German Cities Simply For The Sake Of Increasing The Terror, Though Under Other Pretexts, Should Be Reviewed...i Feel The Need For More Precise Concentration Upon Military Objectives, Such As Oil And Communications Behind The Immediate Battle-zone, Rather Than On Mere Acts Of Terror And Wanton Destruction, However Impressive.

At The Bottom Of All The Tributes Paid To Democracy Is The Little Man, Walking Into The Little Booth, With A Little Pencil, Making A Little Cross On A Little Bit Of Paper-no Amount Of Rhetoric Or Voluminous Discussion Can Possibly Diminish The Overwhelming Importance Of The Point.

Nature Has Not Intended Mankind To Work From Eight In The Morning Until Midnight Without That Refreshment Of Blessed Oblivion Which, Even If It Only Lasts Twenty Minutes, Is Sufficient To Renew All The Vital Forces.

A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing.

I Am Never Going To Have Anything More To Do With Politics Or Politicians. When This War Is Over I Shall Confine Myself Entirely To Writing And Painting.

Time Is One Thing That Can Never Be Retrieved. One May Lose And Regain Friends. One May Lose And Regain Money. Opportunity, Once Spurned, May Come Again. But The Hours That Are Lost In Idleness Can Never Be Brought Back To Be Used In Gainful Pursuits

Time Management

When You Are Winning A War Almost Everything That Happens Can Be Claimed To Be Right And Wise.

The Malice Of The Wicked Was Reinforced By The Weakness Of The Virtuous.

Tidiness Is A Virtue, Symmetry Is Often A Constituent Of Beauty.

The Difference Between Mere Management And Leadership Is Communication.

Success Comes From Continuing To Strive, Fail And Learn Without Losing Enthusiasm.

A Nation Which Has Forgotten Its Past Can Have No Future.

People Who Are Not Prepared To Do Unpopular Things And Defy The Clamor Of The Multitude Are Not Fit To Be Ministers In Time Of Difficulty.

Out Of Intense Complexities Intense Simplicities Emerge. Broadly Speaking, The Short Words Are The Best, And The Old Words When Short Are Best Of All.

You See These Dictators On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police ... Yet In Their Hearts There Is Unspoken Fear. They Are Afraid Of Words And Thoughts: Words Spoken Abroad, Thoughts Stirring At Home -- All The More Powerful Because Forbidden -- Terrify Them. A Little Mouse Of Thought Appears In The Room, And Even The Mightiest Potentates Are Thrown Into Panic.

The Only Way A Man Can Remain Consistent Amid Changing Circumstances Is To Change With Them While Preserving The Same Dominating Purpose.

If We Could Get Out Of This Jam By Giving Up Malta And Gibraltar And Some African Colonies I Would Jump At It. But The Only Safe Way Is To Convince Hitler That He Cannot Beat Us.

In Battles Two Things Are Usually Required Of The Commander-in-chief: To Make A Good Plan For His Army And, Secondly, To Keep A Strong Reserve.

I Pass With Relief From The Tossing Sea Of Cause And Theory To The Firm Ground Of Result And Fact.

It Is Alarming ... To See Mr Gandhi, A Seditious Middle Temple Lawyer, Now Posing As A Fakir Of A Type Well-known In The East, Striding Half-naked Up The Steps Of The Vice-regal Palace While He Is Still Organising And Conducting A Campaign Of Civil Disobedience.

Without Execution, Thinking Is Mere Idleness.

There Is Something Going On In Time And Space, And Beyond Time And Space, Which, Whether We Like It Or Not, Spells Duty.

For Good Or For Ill, Air Mastery Is Today The Supreme Expression Of Military Power And Fleets And Armies, However Vital And Important, Must Accept A Subordinate Rank.

The Power Of An Air Force Is Terrific When There Is Nothing To Oppose It.

Of All The Branches Of Men In The Forces There Is None Which Shows More Devotion And Faces Grimmer Perils Than The Submariners.

Without Victory There Is No Survival!

If We Win, Nobody Will Care. If We Lose, There Will Be Nobody To Care.

Life Is A Test And This World A Place Of Trial. Always The Problems - Or It May Be The Same Problem - Will Be Presented To Every Generation In Different Forms.

It Happens That Once We Learn A Thing, The Motivation To Keep It Up Grows And Expands Further As Well. If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

No Crime Is So Great As Daring To Excel.

Not To Have An Adequate Air Force In The Present State Of The World Is To Compromise The Foundations Of National Freedom And Independence.

One Can Usually Put One's Thoughts Better In One's Own Words.

To Sit At One's Table On A Sunny Morning, With Four Clear Hours Of Uninterruptible Security, Plenty Of Nice White Paper, And A Squeezer Pen - That Is True Happiness.

The Head Cannot Take In More Than The Seat Can Endure.

Free Speech Carries With It The Evil Of All Foolish, Unpleasant Venomous Things That Are Said But, On The Whole, We Would Rather Lump Them Than Do Away With Them.

There Are No People In The World Who Are So Slow To Develop Hostile Feelings Against A Foreign Country As The Americans, And No People Who, Once Estranged, Are More Difficult To Win Back.

We Are Stripped Bare By The Curse Of Plenty.

If Europe Were Once United In The Sharing Of Its Common Inheritance There Would Be No Limit To The Happiness, The Prosperity, And The Glory Which Its Three Or Four Million People Would Enjoy.

The Further Back I Look, The Further Forward I Can See.

The Definition Of Courage Is Going From Defeat To Defeat With Enthusiasm.

Thus Ended The Great American Civil War, Which Must Upon The Whole Be Considered The Noblest And Least Avoidable Of All The Great Mass Conflicts Of Which Till Then There Was Record.

I Drink A Great Deal. I Sleep A Little, And I Smoke Cigar After Cigar. That Is Why I Am In Two-hundred-percent Form.

A Pessimist Sees Problems In Opportunities Whereas An Optimist Sees Opportunities In Problems.

All This Contains Much That Is Obviously True, And Much That Is Relevant; Unfortunately, What Is Obviously True Is Not Relevant, And What Is Relevant Is Not Obviously True.

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