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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.

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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.

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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

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Listing Your Personal Milestones Is Like Storing A Pocketful Of Sunshine For A Rainy Day. Sometimes Our Best Is Simply Not Enough.... We Have To Do What Is Required.

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.

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We Shall Go Forward Together. The Road Upwards Is Stony. There Are Upon Our Journey Dark And Dangerous Valleys Through Which We Have To Make And Fight Our Way. But It Is Sure And Certain That If We Persevere - And We Shall Persevere - We Shall Come Through These Dark And Dangerous Valleys Into A Sunlight Broader And More Genial And More Lasting Than Mankind Has Ever Known.

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We Are Masters Of The Unsaid Words, But Slaves Of Those We Let Slip Out.

I Was Only The Servant Of My Country And Had I, At Any Moment, Failed To Express Her Unflinching Resolve To Fight And Conquer, I Should At Once Have Been Rightly Cast Aside.

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Who's In Or Out, Who Moves The Grand Machine, Nor Stirs My Curiosity, Or Spleen; Secrets Of State No More I Wish To Know Than Secret Movements Of A Puppet-show; Let But The Puppets Move, I've My Desire, Unseen The Hand Which Guides The Master Wire.

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

Nourish Your Hopes, But Do Not Overlook Realities.

From Stettin In The Baltic To Trieste In The Adriatic, An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across The Continent.

I Cannot Help Reflecting That If My Father Had Been American And My Mother British Instead Of The Other Way Around, I Might Have Gotten Here On My Own.

However Beautiful The Strategy, You Should Occasionally Look At The Results.

In Hitler's Launching Of The Nazi Campaign Upon Russia We Can Already See, After Less Than Six Months Of Fighting, That He Made One Of The Outstanding Blunders Of History, And The Results So Far Realized Constitute An Event Of Cardinal Importance In The Final Decision Of The War.

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

There Is The Solution Which I Respectfully Offer To You In This Address To Which I Have Given The Title "the Sinews Of Peace."

Writing A Book Is An Adventure.

I Cannot But Think We Have Much To Be Thankful For, And More Still To Hope For In The Future.

The Old Wars Were Decided By Their Episodes Rather Than By Their Tendencies. In This War, The Tendencies Are Far More Important Than The Episodes.

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.

The Chinese Said Of Themselves Several Thousand Years Ago: China Is A Sea That Salts All The Waters That Flow Into It. Theres Another Chinese Saying About Their Country Which Is Much More Modernit Dates Only From The Fourth Century. This Is The Saying: The Tail Of China Is Large And Will Not Be Wagged. I Like That One. The British Democracy Approves The Principles Of Movable Party Heads And Unwaggable National Tails. It Is Due To The Working Of These Important Forces That I Have The Honour To Be Addressing You At This Moment.

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

Some Men Change Their Party For The Sake Of Their Principles; Others Their Principles For The Sake Of Their Party

The Russians Will Try All The Rooms In A House, Enter Those That Are Not Locked, And When They Come To One That Cannot Be Broken Into, They Will Withdraw And Invite You To Dine Genially That Same Evening.

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.

Never Abandon Life. There Is A Way Out Of Everything Except Death.

Canada Is The Linchpin Of The English-speaking World. Canada, With Those Relations Of Friendly, Affectionate Intimacy With The United States On The One Hand And With Her Unswerving Fidelity To The British Commonwealth And The Motherland On The Other, Is The Link Which Joins Together These Great Branches Of The Human Family, A Link Which, Spanning The Oceans, Brings The Continents Into Their True Relation And Will Prevent In Future Generations Any Growth Of Division Between The Proud And The Happy Nations Of Europe And The Great Countries Which Have Come Into Existence In The New World.

Plans Are Of Little Importance, But Planning Is Essential.

Nothing Is More Dangerous In Wartime Than To Live In The Temperamental Atmosphere Of A Gallup Poll, Always Feeling Ones Pulse And Taking Ones Temperature. I See That A Speaker At The Week-end Said That This Was A Time When Leaders Should Keep Their Ears To The Ground. All I Can Say Is That The British Nation Will Find It Very Hard To Look Up To Leaders Who Are Detected In That Somewhat Ungainly Posture.

Baldwin Often Times Stumbles Over The Truth, But He Always Picks Himself Up And Hurries On As If Nothing Had Happened.

When We Run Out Of Money, We Have To Start Thinking.

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.

It Is More Agreeable To Have The Power To Give Than To Receive.

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

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Procrastination

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