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Now At This Very Moment I Knew That The United States Was In The War, Up To The Neck And In To The Death. So We Had Won After All! ... How Long The War Would Last Or In What Fashion It Would End No Man Could Tell, Nor Did I At This Moment Care ... We Should Not Be Wiped Out. Our History Would Not Come To An End ... Hitler's Fate Was Sealed. Mussolini's Fate Was Sealed. As For The Japanese, They Would Be Ground To A Powder. All The Rest Was Merely The Proper Application Of Overwhelming Force.

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Now At This Very Moment I Knew That The United States Was In The War, Up To The Neck And In To The Death. So We Had Won After All! ... How Long The War Would Last Or In What Fashion It Would End No Man Could Tell, Nor Did I At This Moment Care ... We Should Not Be Wiped Out. Our History Would Not Come To An End ... Hitler's Fate Was Sealed. Mussolini's Fate Was Sealed. As For The Japanese, They Would Be Ground To A Powder. All The Rest Was Merely The Proper Application Of Overwhelming Force.

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Although Always Prepared For Martyrdom, I Preferred That It Should Be Postponed.

I'm Bored With It All. Before Slipping Into A Coma. He Died 9 Days Later.

I Do Not Believe There Is The Slightest Chance Of War With Japan In Our Lifetime. The Japanese Are Our Allies.... Japan Is At The Other End Of The World. She Cannot Menace Our Vital Security In Any Way.... War With Japan Is Not A Possibility Which Any Reasonable Government Need Take Into Account.

To Try To Be Safe Everywhere Is To Be Strong Nowhere.

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The Russian Bolsheviks Have Discovered That Truth Does Not Matter So Long As There Is Reiteration. They Have No Difficulty Whatever In Countering A Fact By A Lie Which, If Repeated Often Enough And Loudly Enough, Becomes Accepted By The People.

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

No Matter. The Dead Bird Does Not Leave The Nest.

The Test Of A People Is What They Can Do When They're Tired.

Beware Of Driving Men To Desperation. Even A Cornered Rat Is Dangerous.

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.

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

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

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

Armed With A Paint-box, One Cannot Be Bored, One Cannot Be Left At A Loose End, One Cannot 'have Several Days On One's Hands.

Americans Are A Wonderful People: They Will Always Do The Right Thing--after Exhausting Every Other Possible Alternative.

The Only Guide To Man Is His Conscience.

From The Days Of Weishaupt To Those Of Karl Marx... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilization And For The Reconstitution Of Society... Has Been Steadily Growing.

The Pashtun Tribes Are Always Engaged In Private Or Public War. Every Man Is A Warrior, A Politician And A Theologian Every Large House Is A Real Feudal Fortress....eve Ry Family Cultivates Its Vendetta; Every Clan, Its Feud....nothing Is Ever Forgotten And Very Few Debts Are Left Unpaid.

Those Good At War Aren't Good At Peace, And Those Good At Peace Aren't Good At War.

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

No Hour Of Life Is Wasted That Is Spent In The Saddle.

If You're Not A Liberal At Twenty You Have No Heart, If You're Not A Conservative At Forty, You Have No Brain.

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

Nothing Is More Costly, Nothing Is More Sterile, Than Vengeance.

Sure I Am This Day We Are Masters Of Our Fate, That The Task Which Has Been Set Before Us Is Not Above Our Strength; That Its Pangs And Toils Are Not Beyond Our Endurance. As Long As We Have Faith In Our Own Cause And An Unconquerable Will To Win, Victory Will Not Be Denied Us.

It Is The People Who Control The Government, Not The Government The People.

It Is Not Alone That Property, In All Its Forms, Is Struck At, But That Liberty, In All Its Forms, Is Challenged By The Fundamental Conceptions Of Socialism.

No One Can Understand History Without Continually Relating The Long Periods Which Are Constantly Mentioned To The Experiences Of Our Own Short Lives.

Meet Success Like A Gentleman; Disaster Like A Man.

This Fulfils My Ambition. I Still Have My Father's Robe As Chancellor. I Shall Be Proud To Serve You In This Splendid Office.

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

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There Comes A Special Moment In Everyone's Life, A Moment For Which That Person Was Born. That Special Opportunity, When He Seizes It, Will Fulfill His Mission - A Mission For Which He Is Uniquely Qualified. In That Moment, He Will Find Greatness. It Is His Finest Hour.

The Substance Of The Eminent Socialist Gentlemen's Speech Is That Making A Profit Is A Sin. It Is My Belief That The Real Sin Is Taking A Loss!

Great And Good Are Seldom The Same Man.

I Like A Man Who Grins When He Fights.

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

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

He Is Like A Female Llama Surprised In Her Bath.

Don't Take 'no' For An Answer, Never Submit To Failure. Do Not Be Fobbed Off With Mere Personal Success Or Acceptance. You Will Make All Kinds Of Mistakes, But As Long As You Are Generous And True, And Also Fierce, You Cannot Hurt The World Or Events.

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 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.

At The Beginning Of This War Megalomania Was The Only Form Of Sanity.

There Is No Such Thing As Public Opinion. There Is Only Published Opinion.

Never Pass Up The Chance To Sit Down Or Go To The Bathroom.

Advertising Nourishes The Consuming Power Of Men.

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I Am Quite Sure, That If We Open A Quarrel Between The Past And The Present, We Shall Find That We Have Lost The Future.

Everything Trends Towards Catastrophe & Collapse. I Am Interested, Geared Up & Happy. Is It Not Horrible To Be Built Like That?

I Am Too Busy. I Have Not Time For Worry.

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Of All The Talents Bestowed Upon Men, None Is So Precious As The Gift Of Oratory. He Who Enjoys It Wields A Power More Durable Than That Of A Great King. He Is An Independent Force In The World.

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I Look Like A Down-and-out Drunk Who Has Been Picked Out Of The Gutter In The Strand.

Never Hold Discussions With The Monkey When The Organ Grinder Is In The Room.

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

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

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Gentleman, I Am Hardening On This Enterprise. I Repeat, I Am Now Hardening Towards This Enterprise.

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I Drink And Smoke And I Am Two Hundred Percent Fit.

When Great Causes Are On The Move In The World, Stirring All Men's Souls, Drawing Them From Their Firesides, Casting Aside Comfort, Wealth And The Pursuit Of Happiness In Response To Impulses At Once Awe-striking And Irresistible, We Learn That We Are Spirits, Not Animals.

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Certainly The Prolonged Education Indispensable To The Progress Of Society Is Not Natural To Mankind.

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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.

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The Man Who Can Master His Time Can Master Nearly Anything.

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.

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He Who Fails To Plan Is Planning To Fail.

Democracy Means That When There's A Knock In The Door At 3 Am, It's Probably The Milkman.

Air Power Can Either Paralyze The Enemy's Military Action Or Compel Him To Devote To The Defense Of His Bases And Communications A Share Of His Straitened Resources Far Greater That What We Need In The Attack.

Every Day You May Make Progress. Every Step May Be Fruitful. Yet There Will Stretch Out Before You An Ever-lengthening, Ever-ascending, Ever-improving Path. You Know You Will Never Get To The End Of The Journey. But This, So Far From Discouraging, Only Adds To The Joy And Glory Of The Climb.

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We Get To Make A Living; We Give To Make A Life.

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.

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

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

872, Ivar, King Of The Northmen Of All Ireland And Britain , Ended His Life." He Had Conquered Mercia And East Anglia. He Had Captured The Major Stronghold Of The Kingdom Of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden With Loot And Seemingly Invincible, He Settled In Dublin And Died There Peacefully Two Years Later. The Pious Chroniclers Report That He "slept In Christ." Thus It May Be That He Had The Best Of Both Worlds.

A Nation That Forgets Its Past Has No Future.

I Am Always Ready To Learn Although I Do Not Always Like Being Taught.

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.

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.

There Are Two Things That Are More Difficult Than Making An After-dinner Speech: Climbing A Wall Which Is Leaning Toward You And Kissing A Girl Who Is Leaning Away From You.

These Are Not Dark Days: These Are Great Days - The Greatest Days Our Country Has Ever Lived.

The Most Formidable People In The World, And Now The Most Dangerous, People Who... Lay Down The Doctrine That Every Frontier Must Be The Starting Out Point For Invasion.

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

I Think It Is The Most Important Subject Facing This Country, But I Cannot Get Any Of My Ministers To Take Any Notice.

Diplomacy Is The Art Of Telling People To Go To Hell In Such A Way That They Ask For Directions.

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.

A Modest Little Person, With Much To Be Modest About.

And A Pamphlet Called Pick Me Up There Is No Genuine Hatred Against Herr Hitler.

I Do Not Agree That The Dog In A Manger Has The Final Right To The Manger Even Though He May Have Lain There For A Very Long Time. I Do Not Admit That Right. I Do Not Admit For Instance, That A Great Wrong Has Been Done To The Red Indians Of America Or The Black People Of Australia. I Do Not Admit That A Wrong Has Been Done To These People By The Fact That A Stronger Race, A Higher-grade Race, A More Worldly Wise Race To Put It That Way, Has Come In And Taken Their Place.

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

When I'm In Office I Always Keep Members Of Parliament Talking. If They Stopped They Might Start Thinking.

No Part Of The Education Of A Politician Is More Indispensable Than The Fighting Of Elections.

It Is A Fine Game To Play - The Game Of Politics - And It Is Well Worth Waiting For A Good Hand Before Really Plunging.

These Cruel, Wanton, Indiscriminate Bombings Of London Are, Of Course, A Part Of Hitler's Invasion Plans. He Hopes, By Killing Large Numbers Of Civilians, And Women And Children, That He Will Terrorise And Cow The People Of This Mighty Imperial City ... Little Does He Know The Spirit Of The British Nation, Or The Tough Fibre Of The Londoners.

Writing A Long And Substantial Book Is Like Having A Friend And Companion At Your Side, To Whom You Can Always Turn For Comfort And Amusement, And Whose Society Becomes More Attractive As A New And Widening Field Of Interest Is Lighted In The Mind.

The British Nation Is Unique In This Respect. They Are The Only People Who Like To Be Told How Bad Things Are, Who Like To Be Told The Worst.

Working Hours Are Never Long Enough. Each Day Is A Holiday, And Ordinary Holidays Are Grudged As Enforced Interruptions In An Absorbing Vocation.

The Dictator, In All His Pride, Is Held In The Grip Of His Party Machine. He Can Go Forward; He Cannot Go Back. He Must Blood His Hounds And Show Them Sport, Or Else, Like Actaeon Of Old, Be Devoured By Them. All-strong Without, He Is All-weak Within.

It Always Looks So Easy To Solve Problems By Taking The Line Of Least Resistance.

So Long As I Am Acting From Duty And Conviction, I Am Indifferent To Taunts And Jeers. I Think They Will Probably Do Me More Good Than Harm.

A Study Of Disease-of Pestilences Methodically Prepared And Deliberately Launched Upon Man And Beast-is Certainly Being Pursue In The Laboratories Of More Than One Great Country. Blight To Destroy Crops, Anthrax To Slay Horses And Cattle, Plague To Poison Not Armies But Whole Districts - Such Are The Lines Along Which Military Science Is Remorselessly Advancing.

The Person Of Truth Must Be Covered With Bodyguards Of Lies.

Most Of The Significant Contributions That Have Been Made To Society Have Been Made By People Who Were Tired.

We Do Not Covet Anything From Any Nation Except Their Respect.

Never Run Away From Anything. Never!

Double Standard

War Is Mainly A Catalogue Of Blunders.

What Is The Use Of Living, If It Be Not To Strive For Noble Causes And To Make This Muddled World A Better Place For Those Who Will Live In It After We Are Gone? How Else Can We Put Ourselves In Harmonious Relation With The Great Verities And Consolations Of The Infinite And The Eternal? And I Avow My Faith That We Are Marching Towards Better Days. Humanity Will Not Be Cast Down. We Are Going On Swinging Bravely Forward Along The Grand High Road And Already Behind The Distant Mountains Is The Promise Of The Sun.

There Is No Merit In Putting Off A War For A Year If, When It Comes, It Is Far Worse Or Much Harder To Win.

A Small Lie Needs A Bodyguard Of Bigger Lies To Protect It.

Side By Side ... The British And French Peoples Have Advanced To Rescue ... Mankind From The Foulest And Most Soul-destroying Tyranny Which Has Ever Darkened And Stained The Pages Of History. Behind Them ... Gather A Group Of Shattered States And Bludgeoned Races: The Czechs, The Poles, The Norwegians, The Danes, The Dutch, The Belgians -- Upon All Of Whom The Long Night Of Barbarism Will Descend, Unbroken Even By A Star Of Hope, Unless We Conquer, As Conquer We Must; As Conquer We Shall.

A Gentleman Is A Man Who Is Only Rude When He Intends To Be.

Watch Your Character For Your Character Is Your Destiny.

Any Clever Person Can Make Plans For Winning A War If He Has No Responsibility For Carrying Them Out.

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

Lots Of Folks Are Forced To Skimp To Support A Government That Won't.

Some People Regard Private Enterprise As A Predatory Tiger To Be Shot. Others Look On It As A Cow They Can Milk. Not Enough People See It As A Healthy Horse, Pulling A Sturdy Wagon.

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

I Am Writing In One Of The Keepers' Lodges To Wh I Have Returned After Stalking & Where I Am Waiting For The Prince Of Wales. Quite The Best Day's Sport I Have Had In This Country - 4 Good Stags & Home Early!

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.

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.

If You Don't Have Any Enemies In Life You Have Never Stood Up For Anything.

If I Stay On For The Time Being, Bearing The Burden At My Age, It Is Not Because Of Love For Power Or Office. I Have Had An Ample Share Of Both. If I Stay It Is Because I Have A Feeling That I May, Through Things That Have Happened, Have An Influence About What I Care About Above All Else, The Building Of A Sure And Lasting Peace.

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

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

I Am Strongly In Favour Of Using Poisoned Gas Against Uncivilised Tribes.

I Was Shown A Picture By Cézanne Of A Blank Wall Of A House, Which He Had Made Instinct With The Most Delicate Lights And Colours.

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.

There Must Be What Mr. Gladstone Many Years Ago Called A Blessed Act Of Oblivion. We Must All Turn Our Backs Upon The Horrors Of The Past. We Must Look To The Future. We Cannot Afford To Drag Forward Across The Years That Are To Come The Hatreds And Revenges Which Have Sprung From The Injuries Of The Past.

Hatred Plays The Same Part In Government As Acid In Chemistry.

Our Future Is In Our Hands. Our Lives Are What We Choose To Make Them.

Victory Was To Be Bought So Dear As To Be Almost Indistinguishable From Defeat.

It Is In The Interest Of The Wage-earner To Have Many Other Alternatives Open To Him Than Service Under One All-powerful Employer Called The State

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

I Have Consistently Urged My Friends To Abstain From Reading It.

The Latest Refinements Of Science Are Linked With The Cruelties Of The Stone Age.

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

It Is No Use Doing What You Like; You Have Got To Like What You Do.

Don't Interrupt Me While I'm Interrupting.

I Have Always Said That If Great Britain Were Defeated In War I Hoped We Should Find A Hitler To Lead Us Back To Our Rightful Position Among The Nations. I Am Sorry, However, That He Has Not Been Mellowed By The Great Success That Has Attended Him. The Whole World Would Rejoice To See The Hitler Of Peace And Tolerance, And Nothing Would Adorn His Name In World History So Much As Acts Of Magnanimity And Of Mercy And Of Pity To The Forlorn And Friendless, To The Weak And Poor.... Let This Great Man Search His Own Heart And Conscience Before He Accuses Anyone Of Being A Warmonger.

Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste

Unless Some Effective World Supergovernment For The Purpose Of Preventing War Can Be Set Up ... The Prospects For Peace And Human Progress Are Dark ....if .... It Is Found Possible To Build A World Organization Of Irresistible Force And Inviolable Authority For The Purpose Of Securing Peace, There Are No Limits To The Blessings Which All Men Enjoy And Share.

I Have Found In My Experience Of War, That Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Invaluable.

...the High Roads Of The Future Will Be Clear, Not Only For Us But For All, Not Only For Our Time But For A Century To Come.

[there Are Dangers In] The Disposition To Hunt Down Rich Men As If They Were Noxious Beasts.

Hasty Work And Premature Decisions May Lead To Penalties Out Of All Proportion To The Issues Immediately Involved.

We Make Our Buildings And Afterwards They Make Us. They Regulate The Course Of Our Lives.

You Must Put Your Head Into The Lion's Mouth If The Performance Is To Be A Success.

Good And Great Are Seldom In The Same Man.

The Eagle Has Ceased To Scream, But The Parrots Will Now Begin To Chatter. The War Of The Giants Is Over And The Pigmies Will Now Start To Squabble.

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

I Have Been Brought Up And Trained To Have The Utmost Contempt For People Who Get Drunk.

We Must Have A Better Word Than "prefabricated", Why Not "ready-made"?

Champagne Is The Wine Of Civilization And The Oil Of Government.

In Wartime, Truth Is So Precious That She Should Always Be Attended By A Bodyguard Of Lies.

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

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.

Nothing Is More Dangerous In Wartime Than To Live In The Temperamental Atmosphere Of A Gallup Poll, Always Feeling One's Pulse And Taking One's Temperature.

I Will Begin By Saying What Everybody Would Like To Ignore Or Forget... We Have Sustained A Total And Unmitigated Defeat... All Is Over. Silent, Mournful, Abandoned, Broken, Czechoslovakia Recedes Into The Darkness... We Are In The Presence Of A Disaster Of The First Magnitude Which Has Befallen Great Britain And France. Do Not Let Us Blind Ourselves To That... Do Not Suppose That This Is The End. This Is Only The Beginning Of The Reckoning.

I Propose That 100,000 Degenerate Britons Should Be Forcibly Sterilized And Others Put In Labour Camps To Halt The Decline Of The British Race.

Politics Is More Dangerous Than War, For In War You Are Only Killed Once.

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.

Death And Sorrow Will Be The Companions Of Our Journey; Hardship Our Garment; Constancy And Valor Our Only Shield. We Must Be United, We Must Be Undaunted, We Must Be Inflexible.

There Is Only One Answer To Defeat And That Is Victory.

The Most Important Thing About Education Is Appetite.

It Is Easier To Give Directions Than Advice, And More Agreeable To Have The Right To Act, Even In A Limited Sphere, Than The Privilege To Talk At Large.

If You Will Not Fight For Right When You Can Easily Win Without Bloodshed; If You Will Not Fight When Your Victory Will Be Sure And Not Too Costly; You May Come To The Moment When You Will Have To Fight With All Odds Against You And Only A Precarious Chance Of Survival. There May Be Even A Worse Fate, You May Have To Fight When There Is No Hope Of Victory, Because It Is Better To Perish Than To Live As Slaves.

The True Guide Of Life Is To Do What Is Right.

An Extra Yawn One Morning In The Springtime, An Extra Snooze One Night In The Autumn Is All That We Ask In Return For Dazzling Gifts. We Borrow An Hour One Night In April; We Pay It Back With Golden Interest Five Months Later.

In Order To Become A Great Man, One Must First Be A Great Rascal.

You See These Dictators Up On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police. They're Afraid Of Words And Thought. ... They Make Frantic Efforts To Bar Our Thoughts And Words. ... A State Of Society Where Men May Not Speak Their Mind - Where Children Denounce Their Parents To The Police - Where A Businessman Or Small Shopkeeper Ruins His Competitor By Telling Tales About His Private Opinion. Such A State Of Society Cannot Long Endure If It Is Continually In Contact With The Healthy Outside World.

If You Want Me To Speak For Two Minutes, It Will Take Me Three Weeks Of Preparation. If You Want Me To Speak For Thirty Minutes, It Will Take Me A Week To Prepare. If You Want Me To Speak For An Hour, I Am Ready Now.

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