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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.

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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.

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A Hopeful Disposition Is Not The Sole Qualification To Be A Prophet.

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.

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The Monarchy Is So Extraordinarily Useful. When Britain Wins A Battle She Shouts, God Save The Queen; When She Loses, She Votes Down The Prime Minister.

We Are With Europe, But Not Of It. We Are Linked, But Not Comprised. We Are Interested And Associated, But Not Absorbed. And Should European Statesmen Address Us In The Words Which Were Used Of Old — “shall I Speak For Thee To The King Or The Captain Of The Host?” — We Should Reply With The Shunamite Woman: “nay, Sir, For We Dwell Among Our Own People.”

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.

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

Always Remember, However Sure You Are That You Could Easily Win, That There Would Not Be A War If The Other Man Did Not Think He Also Had A Chance.

I Do Not Presume To Explain How To Paint, But Only How To Get Enjoyment.

And Wherever Men Are Fighting Against Barbarism, Tyranny, And Massacre, For Freedom, Law, And Honour, Let Them Remember That The Fame Of Their Deeds, Even Though They Themselves Be Exterminated, May Perhaps Be Celebrated As Long As The World Rolls Round.

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

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

Canada Is The Linchpin Of The English-speakin G World

The Way To Achieve Happiness Is To Try For Perfection That Is Impossible To Achieve, And Spend The Rest Of Your Life Trying To Achieve It.

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

This Beginning With Audacity, Or Being Thrown Into The Middle Of It, Is Already A Very Great Part Of The Art Of Painting.

It May Be That ... When The Advance Of Destructive Weapons Enables Everyone To Kill Everybody Else Nobody Will Want To Kill Anyone At All. [referring To The Hydrogen Bomb.]

Remember Gentleman, It's Not Just France We're Fighting For, It's Champagne!

The Problems Of Victory Are More Agreeable Than Those Of Defeat, But They Are No Less Difficult.

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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.

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

Never Trust A Man Who Has Not A Single Redeeming Vice.

The Water Was Not Fit To Drink. To Make It Palatable, We Had To Add Whisky. By Diligent Effort, I Learned To Like It.

It Is The English-speaking Nations Who, Almost Alone, Keep Alight The Torch Of Freedom.

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I Am An Optimist. It Does Not Seem Too Much Use Being Anything Else.

History With Its Flickering Lamp Stumbles Along The Trail Of The Past, Trying To Reconstruct Its Scenes, To Revive Its Echoes, And Kindle With Pale Gleams The Passion Of Former Days.

Play The Game For More Than You Can Afford To Lose... Only Then Will You Learn The Game.

Before Alamein We Never Had A Victory. After Alamein We Never Had A Defeat.

Next Time I Go Into The Action - I Shall Command A Hundred Men - & Possibly I May Bring Off Some Coup. Besides I Shall Have Some Other Motive For Taking Chances Than Merely "love Of Adventure".

The English Never Draw A Line Without Blurring It.

Young People At Universities Study To Achieve Knowledge And Not To Learn A Trade. We Must All Learn How To Support Ourselves, But We Must Also Learn How To Live. We Need A Lot Of Engineers In The Modern World, But We Do Not Want A World Of Modern Engineers.

Madam, If You Were My Wife, I Would Drink It.

We Shall Come Through! We Cannot Tell When, We Cannot Tell How, But We Shall Come Through.

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

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 Others That Have Been

There Is No Worse Mistake In Public Leadership Than To Hold Out False Hopes Soon To Be Swept Away. The British People Can Face Peril Or Misfortune With Fortitude And Buoyancy, But They Bitterly Resent Being Deceived Or Finding That Those Responsible For Their Affairs Are Themselves Dwelling In A Fool's Paradise.

It Would Be A Great Reform In Politics If Perception Could Be Made To Spread As Easily And As Rapidly As Foolishness.

This Revelation Of The Secrets Of Nature, Long Mercifully Withheld From Man, Should Arouse The Most Solemn Reflections In The Mind And Conscience Of Every Human Being Capable Of Comprehension. We Must Indeed Pray That These Awful Agencies Will Be Made To Conduce To Peace Among The Nations, And That Instead Of Wreaking Measureless Havoc Upon The Entire Globe, May Become A Perennial Fountain Of World Prosperity.

The Nation Will Find It Very Hard To Look Up To The Leaders Who Are Keeping Their Ears To The Ground.

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

Of All The Small Nations Of This Earth, Perhaps Only The Ancient Greeks Surpass The Scots In Their Contribution To Mankind.

I Am Certainly Not One Of Those Who Need To Be Prodded. In Fact, If Anything, I Am The Prod.

Never Run Away From Anything. Never!

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Please Put The Ladybug Outside Without Harming Her. (to His Butler)

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For With Primacy In Power Is Also Joined An Awe Inspiring Accountability To The Future.

I Am Not A Bit Afraid Of Siegfried Sassoon. That Man Can Think. I Am Afraid Only Of People Who Cannot Think.

For The First 25 Years Of My Life, I Wanted Freedom. For The Next 25 Years, I Wanted Order. For The Next 25 Years, I Realized That Order Is Freedom.

With Opportunity Comes Responsibility.

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Put Together A Seaman, Soldier And Airman And What Do You Get? The Sum Of All Fears.

My Conclusion On Freewill And Predestination- They Are Identical.

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

Achievement Is Not Last, Disappointment Is Not Deadly: It Is The Mettle To Proceed With That Matters.

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Air Power Is The Most Difficult Of Military Force To Measure Or Even Express In Precise Terms.

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We Shape Our Dwellings, And Afterwards Our Dwellings Shape Us.

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The Pictorial Battlefield Becomes A Sea Of Mud Mercifully Veiled By The Fog Of War.

[my Ideal Of A Good Dinner] Is To Discuss Good Food, And, After This Good Food Has Been Discussed, To Discuss A Good Topic - With Myself The Chief Conversationalist.

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Without Execution, Thinking Is Mere Idleness.

You Must Look At Facts, Because They Look At You.

If You Go On With This Nuclear Arms Race, All You Are Going To Do Is Make The Rubble Bounce.

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Plans Are Worthless. Planning Is Priceless.

We Are Asking The Nations Of Europe Between Whom Rivers Of Blood Have Flowed, To Forget The Feuds Of A Thousand Years And Work For The Larger Harmonies On Which The Future Depends.

The First Quality That Is Needed Is Audacity.

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Money Is Like Manure, Its Only Good If You Spread It Around.

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I Never Slept As Soundly As The Night Following Pearl Harbor. For I Knew That The American Race Would Now Be Entering The War And It Would Never Be The Same.

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

Nancy, If I Were Your Husband I'd Drink It.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

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

It Is My Belief, You Cannot Deal With The Most Serious Things In The World Unless You Understand The Most Amusing.

The Main Vice Of Capitalism Is The Uneven Distribution Of Prosperity. The Main Vice Of Socialism Is The Even Distribution Of Misery.

With Integrity, Nothing Else Counts. Without Integrity, Nothing Else Counts.

There Is A Forgotten, Nay Almost Forbidden Word, Which Means More To Me Than Any Other. That Word Is England.

Watch Your Character For Your Character Is Your Destiny.

I Have Never Developed Indigestion From Eating My Words.

It Is Not Open To The Cool Bystander . . . To Set Himself Up As An Impartial Judge Of Events Which Would Never Have Occurred Had He Outstretched A Helping Hand In Time.

We Are All Worms. However, I Like To Think I'm A Glow Worm

If I Was Your Wife Sir, I'd Poison You! Madam, If You Were My Wife, I'd Let You!

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.

By Swallowing Evil Words Unsaid, No One Has Ever Harmed His Stomach.

Millions Who Could Not Follow Closely Or Accurately The Main Events Of The War Looked Day After Day In The Papers For The Fortunes Of Mafeking, And When Finally The News Of Its Relief Was Flashed Throughout The World, The Streets Of London Became Impassable, And The Floods Of Sterling, Cockney Patriotism Were Released In Such A Deluge Of Unbridled, Delirious Joy As Was Never Witnessed Again Till Armistace Night, 1918.

I Am Convinced That There Is No Smarter, Handier, Or More Adaptable Body Of Troops In The World.

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In Handing Over The Government Of India To These So-called Political Classes, We Are Handing Over To Men Of Straw, Of Whom, In A Few Years, No Trace Will Remain.

When You Feel You Cannot Continue In Your Position For Another Minute, And All That Is In Human Power Has Been Done, That Is The Moment When The Enemy Is Most Exhausted, And When One Step Forward Will Give You The Fruits Of The Struggle You Have Borne

I Do Not Understand The Squeamishness About The Use Of Gas. I Am Strongly In Favour Of Using Poisonous Gas Against Uncivilized Tribes.

Make Sure That The Beer - Four Pints A Week - Goes To The Troops Under Fire Before Any Of The Parties In The Rear Get A Drop.

It Is Not Given To Us To Peer Into The Mysteries Of The Future. Still, I Avow My Hope And Faith, Sure And Inviolate, That In The Days To Come The British And American Peoples Will For Their Own Safety And For The Good Of All Walk Together Side By Side In Majesty, In Justice, And In Peace.

I Like Things To Happen, And If They Don't Happen I Like To Make Them Happen.

Make Things Happen

The Whole History Of The World Is Summed Up In The Fact That, When Nations Are Strong, They Are Not Always Just, And When They Wish To Be Just, They Are No Longer Strong.

It So Often Happens That, When Men Are Convinced That They Have To Die, A Desire To Bear Themselves Well And To Leave Life's Stage With Dignity Conquers All Other Sensations.

Nature Will Not Be Admired By Proxy.

When You Are Going Through Hell, Don't Stop.

Socialism Is An Attack On The Right To Breathe Freely. No Socialist System Can Be Established Without A Political Police.

One Cannot Leap A Chasm In Two Jumps.

You Must Sleep Sometime Between Lunch And Dinner, And No Halfway Measures. Take Off Your Clothes And Get Into Bed. That's What I Always Do.

When Told By A Helpful Aide That His Flies Were Undone He Replied 'young Man, There Is No Harm In Leaving The Cage Door Open If The Bird Is Dead!

A Pessimist Sees The Difficulty In Every Opportunity; An Optimist Sees The Opportunity In Every Difficulty.

Only Changes In Mindsets Can Extend The Frontiers Of The Possible.

All The Great Things Are Simple.

History Is Written By The Victors.

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

At One Side Of The Palette There Is White, At The Other Black; And Neither Is Ever Used Neat.

I Do Not Admit... That A Great Wrong Has Been Done To The Red Indians Of America, Or The Black People Of Australia... By The Fact That A Stronger Race, A Higher Grade Race... Has Come In And Taken Its Place.

Do You Know Why The Nose Of The Bull Dog Is Sloped Backwards? So It Can Keep On Breathing Without Ever Letting Go.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt Was Like Opening Your First Bottle Of Champagne; Knowing Him Was Like Drinking It.

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

The United States Abd Usually Be Reiled On To Do The Right Thing, But Only After They Have Tried All The Other Alternatives.

Bearing Ourselves Humbly Before God... We Await Undismayed The Impending Assault.... Be The Ordeal Sharp Or Long, Or Both, We Shall Seek No Terms, We Shall Tolerate No Parlay; We May Show Mercy - We Shall Ask For None.

I Do Not See Any Other Way Of Realizing Our Hopes About World Organization In Five Or Six Days. Even The Almighty Took Seven.

Socialism Is Inseparably Interwoven With Totalitarianism And The Object Worship Of The State.

There Never Will Be Enough For Everything While The World Goes On. The More That Is Given The More There Will Be Needed.

It Excites World Wonder In The Parliamentary Countries That We Should Build A Chamber, Starting Afresh, Which Can Only Seat Two-thirds Of Its Members. It Is Difficult To Explain This To Those Who Do Not Know Our Ways. They Cannot Easily Be Made To Understand Why We Consider That The Intensity, Passion, Intimacy, Informality And Spontaneity Of Our Debates Constitute The Personality Of The House Of Commons And Endow It At Once With Its Focus And Its Strength.

We Have Always Found The Irish A Bit Odd. They Refuse To Be English.

In War It Does Not Matter Who Is Right, But Who Is Left.

Unpunctuality Is A Vile Habit.

Every Man Should Ask Himself Each Day Whether He Is Not Too Readily Accepting Negative Solutions.

These Are Great Days.

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.

His Name Is Rufus Ii-but The Ii Is Silent.

You Must Be Prepared For Further Efforts Of Mind And Body And Further Sacrifices To Great Causes, If You Are Not To Fall Back Into The Rut If Inertia, The Confusion Of Aim And The Craven Fear Of Being Great.

There Are Two Kinds Of Success-initial And Ultimate.

The Cemetery Is Full Of Indispensable People.

Socialism Needs To Pull Down Wealth; Liberalism Seeks To Raise Up Poverty. Socialism Would Destroy Private Interests, Liberalism Would Preserve [them] ... By Reconciling Them With Public Right. Socialism Would Kill Enterprise; Liberalism Would Rescue Enterprise From The Trammels Of Privilege And Preference. Socialism Assails The Preeminence Of The Individual; Liberalism Seeks ... To Build Up A Minimum Standard For The Mass. Socialism Exalts The Rule; Liberalism Exalts The Man. Socialism Attacks Capitalism; Liberalism Attacks Monopoly.

Do Not Turn The Superior Eye Of Critical Passivity Upon These Efforts .... We Must Not Be Ambitious. We Cannot Aspire To Masterpieces. We May Content Ourselves With A Joy Ride In A Paint-box.

I Gather, Young Man, That You Wish To Be A Member Of Parliament. The First Lesson That You Must Learn Is, When I Call For Statistics About The Rate Of Infant Mortality, What I Want Is Proof That Fewer Babies Died When I Was Prime Minister Than When Anyone Else Was Prime Minister. That Is A Political Statistic.

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.

There Is No Finer Investment For Any Community Than Putting Milk Into Babies.

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.

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

It Is Bad For A Nation When It Is Without Faith.

Writing A Book Is An Adventure.

Better To Dare Mighty Things And Fail Than To Live In A Grey Twilight Where There Is Neither Victory Nor Defeat.

We Shall Defend Every Village, Every Town And Every City. The Vast Mass Of London Itself, Fought Street By Street, Could Easily Devour An Entire Hostile Army; And We Would Rather See London Laid In Ruins And Ashes Than That It Should Be Tamely And Abjectly Enslaved.

I Am Not Invested With Dictatorial Powers. If I Were, I Should Be Quite Ready To Dictate.

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.

The Arts Are Essential To Any Complete National Life. The State Owes It To Itself To Sustain And Encourage Them. [...] Ill Fares The Race Which Fails To Salute The Arts With The Reverence And Delight Which Are Their Due.

No Two On Earth In All Things Can Agree. All Have Some Daring Singularity.

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

History Unfolds Itself By Strange And Unpredictable Paths. We Have Little Control Over The Future; And None At All Over The Past.

I Am Easily Satisfied With The Very Best.

We Need To Be Strong In Order To Avoid War; And To Win. A Politician Looks Forward Only To The Next Election. A Statesman Looks Forward To The Next Generation. Any Person Who Is Over 30 And Is Not A Conservative, Has No Brains.

The Unnatural And Increasingly Rapid Growth Of The Feeble-minded And Insane Classes, Coupled As It Is With Steady Restriction Among All The Thrifty, Energetic And Superior Stocks Constitutes A National And Race Danger Which Is Impossible To Exaggerate. I Feel That The Source From Which The Stream Of Madness Is Fed Should Be Cut Off And Sealed Before Another Year Has Passed.

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

Thus, Then, On The Night Of The Tenth Of May, At The Outset Of This Mighty Battle, I Acquired The Chief Power In The State, Which Henceforth I Wielded In Ever-growing Measure For Five Years And Three Months Of World War, At The End Of Which Time, All Our Enemies Having Surrendered Unconditionally Or Being About To Do So, I Was Immediately Dismissed By The British Electorate From All Further Conduct Of Their Affairs.

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]

I Was Born Under The Blue Ridge, And Under That Side Which Is Blue In The Evening Light, In A Wild Land Of Game And Forest And Rushing Waters.

Unless Some Effective Supranational Government Can Be Set Up And Brought Quickly Into Action, The Prospects Of Peace And Human Progress Are Dark And Doubtful.

War Is A Game That Is Played With A Smile. If You Can't Smile, Grin. If You Can't Grin, Keep Out Of The Way Till You Can.

I Have Benefited Greatly From Criticism, And At No Time Have I Suffered A Lack Thereof.

The Great Defence Against Aerial Menace Is To Attack The Enemy's Aircraft As Near As Possible To Their Point Of Departure.

Russian May Seem Narrow-minded, Impudent, Or Even Stupid People, But Can Only Pray For Those Who Are Against Them.

It Is Better To Be Frightened Now Than Killed Hereafter

We Are Shaping The World Faster Than We Can Change Ourselves, And We Are Applying To The Present The Habits Of The Past.

No One Saves Us But Ourselves. No One Can And No One May. We Ourselves Must Walk The Path. Some Of Us Think Holding On Makes Us Strong; But Sometimes It Is Letting Go. Continuous Effort - Not Strength Or Intelligence - Is The Key To Unlocking Our Potential.

There Is No Purpose In Living Where There Is Nothing To Do.

My Hand Seemed Arrested By A Silent Veto.

A Single Glass Of Champagne Imparts A Feeling Of Exhilaration. The Nerves Are Braced; The Imagination Is Stirred, The Wits Become More Nimble.

Champagne Drinking

Mr. Gladstone Read Homer For Fun, Which I Thought Served Him Right.

I Have Nothing To Offer But Blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat.

Battles Are Won By Slaughter And Maneuver. The Greater The General, The More He Contributes In Maneuver, The Less He Demands In Slaughter.

I Am In Favor Of Deliberately Spreading Methodically Prepared Bacteria Among People And Animals -- Mildew ... To Destroy The Harvests, Anthrax To Destroy Horses And Livestock, And The Plague, In Order To Kill Not Only Entire Armies, But Also The Inhabitants Of Large Regions.

It Has Been Said That Democracy Is The Worst Form Of Government Except All The Others That Have Been Tried.

We Have Taken A Grave And Hazardous Decision To Sustain The Greeks And Try To Make A Balkan Front.

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

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 Expect You Will Find That Change Is The Best Kind Of Rest.

The Difference Between Mere Management And Leadership Is Communication.

An Appeaser Is One Who Feeds A Crocodile, Hoping It Will Eat Him Last.

We Are Not Meant To Find Peace In This World. The Spirit Of Life Cannot Exist Without Effort. Destroy The Rivalries Of Man And Nations And You Will Have Destroyed All That Makes For Betterment And Progress On Earth.

The Poor Girl Does Not Know How To Have A Conversation. Unfortunately, She Does Know How To Speak.

There Is Required For The Composition Of A Great Commander Not Only Massive Common Sense And Reasoning Power, Not Only Imagination, But Also An Element Of Legerdemain, An Original And Sinister Touch, Which Leaves The Enemy Puzzled As Well As Beaten.

To Meet Roosevelt With All His Buoyant Sparkle, His Iridescence, Was Like Opening A Bottle Of Champagne.

How I Hated This School, And What A Life Of Anxiety I Lived There For More Than Two Years.

I Now Began For The First Time To Envy Those Young Cubs At The University Who Had Fine Scholars To Tell Them What Was What; Professors Who Had Devoted Their Lives To Mastering And Focusing Ideas In Every Branch Of Learning; Who Were Eager To Distribute The Treasures They Had Gathered Before They Were Overtaken By The Night. But Now I Pity Undergraduates, When I See What Frivolous Lives Many Of Them Lead In The Midst Of Precious Fleeting Opportunity. After All, A Man's Life Must Be Nailed To A Cross Either Of Thought Or Action. Without Work There Is No Play.

An Efficient And A Successful Administration Manifests Itself Equally In Small As In Great Matters.

The Aryan Stock Is Bound To Triumph.

Mountaintops Inspire Leaders But Valleys Mature Them.

There Are Two Processes Which We Adopt Consciously Or Unconsciously When We Try To Prophesy. We Can Seek A Period In The Past Whose Conditions Resemble As Closely As Possible Those Of Our Day, And Presume That The Sequel To That Period Will, Save For Some Minor Alterations, Be Similar. Secondly, We Can Survey The General Course Of Development In Our Immediate Past, And Endeavor To Prolong It Into The Near Future. The First Is The Method The Historian; The Second That Of The Scientist. Only The Second Is Open To Us Now, And This Only In A Partial Sphere.

I Began My Education At A Very Early Age; In Fact, Right After I Left College.

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

There Is Nothing Wrong With Change, If It Is In The Right Direction.

Say What You Have To Say And The First Time You Come To A Sentence With A Grammatical Ending - Sit Down.

Do Not Let Us Speak Of Darker Days, Let Us Speak Rather Of Sterner Days. These Are Not Dark Days: These Are Great Days-the Greatest Days Our Country Has Ever Lived; And We Must All Thank God That We Have Been Allowed, Each Of Us According To Our Stations, To Play A Part In Making These Days Memorable In The History Of Our Race.

We Must Recognise That We Have A Great Inheritance In Our Possession, Which Represents The Prolonged Achievement Of The Centuries; That There Is Not One Of Our Simple Uncounted Rights Today For Which Better Men Than We Are Have Not Died On The Scaffold Or The Battlefield. We Have Not Only A Great Treasure; We Have A Great Cause. Are We Taking Every Measure Within Our Power To Defend That Cause?

When You Get A Thing The Way You Want It, Leave It Alone.

It's Never Over 'till It's Over! Never Give Up! Never.

Never Giving Up

If I Had Been An Italian I Am Sure That I Should Have Been Whole-heartedly With You From The Start To Finish In Your Triumphant Struggle Against The Bestial Appetites And Passions Of Leninism.

You Never Can Tell Whether Bad Luck May Not After All Turn Out To Be Good Luck.

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