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There Is A Good Saying To The Effect That When A New Book Appears One Should Read An Old One. As As Author I Would Not Recommend Too Strict An Adherence To This Saying.

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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.

I Hate Indians. They Are A Beastly People With A Beastly Religion.

Fear Is A Reaction. Courage Is A Decision.

You Have Enemies? Good. That Means You've Stood Up For Something, Sometime In Your Life.

... I Think It Would Be So Much Better For Me To Learn Something Which Would Be Useful To Me In The Army, As Well As Affording Me Exercise And Amusement.

The Times Is Speechless, And Takes Three Columns To Express Its Speechlessness.

Show Me A Young Conservative And I'll Show You Someone With No Heart. Show Me An Old Liberal And I'll Show You Someone With No Brains.

Want Of Foresight, Unwillingness To Act When Action Would Be Simple And Effective, Lack Of Clear Thinking, Confusion Of Counsel Until The Emergency Comes, Until Self-preservation Strikes Its Jarring Gong - These Are The Features Which Constitute The Endless Repetition Of History.

Difficulties Mastered Are Opportunities Won.

You May Take The Most Gallant Sailor, The Most Intrepid Airman, Or The Most Audacious Soldier, Put Them At A Table Together- What Do You Get? The Sum Of Their Fears.

Twice In My Lifetime The Long Arm Of Destiny Has Reached Across The Oceans And Involved The Entire Life And Manhood Of The United States In A Deadly Struggle.there Was No Use In Saying We Don't Want It; We Won

From Stettin In The Baltic To Trieste In The Atlantic, An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across The Continent. Behind The Line Lie All The Capitals Of The Ancient States Of Central And Eastern Europe... All These Famous Cities And The Populations Around Them Lie In What I Must Call The Soviet Sphere, And All Are Subject In One Form Or Another, Not Only To Soviet Influence But To A Very High And, In Many Cases, Increasing Measure Of Control From Moscow.

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

If You Don't Take Change By The Hand, It Will Take You By The Throat.

Do What You Like, But Like What You Do.

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

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

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.

You Can Always Count On Americans To Do The Right Thing - After They've Tried Everything Else.

If You Put Two Economists Xin A Room, You Get Two Opinions, Unless One Of Them Is Lord Keynes, In Which Case You Get Three Opinions.

There Is Not Much Collective Security In A Flock Of Sheep On The Way To The Butcher.

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.

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

The Most Dangerous Moment Of The War, And The One Which Caused Me The Greatest Alarm, Was When The Japanese Fleet Was Heading For Ceylon And The Naval Base There. The Capture Of Ceylon, The Consequent Control Of The Indian Ocean, And The Possibility At The Same Time Of A German Conquest Of Egypt Would Have Closed The Ring And The Future Would Have Been Black.

Politics Are Very Much Like War. We May Even Have To Use Poison Gas At Times.

Never Flinch, Never Weary, Never Despair.

There Is No Doubt That It Is Around The Family And The Home That All The Greatest Virtues, The Most Dominating Virtues Of Human, Are Created, Strengthened And Maintained.

I Cannot Pretend To Be Impartial About The Colours. I Rejoice With The Brilliant Ones, And Am Genuinely Sorry For The Poor Browns.

With Opportunity Comes Responsibility.

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

Everyone Has His Day And Some Days Last Longer Than Others.

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.

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

Victory And Defeat

I Always Avoid Prophesying Beforehand, Because It Is A Much Better Policy To Prophesy After The Event Has Already Taken Place.

I Am Very Glad There Are Quite A Number Of People Born With A Gift And A Liking For All Of This; Like Great Chessplayers Who Play Sixteen Games At Once Blindfold And Die Quite Soon Of Epilepsy. Serve Them Right! I Hope The Mathematicians, However, Are Well Rewarded. I Promise Never To Blackleg Their Profession Nor Take The Bread Out Of Their Mouths.

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

Be A Peg, Hammered Into The Frozen Ground, Immovable.

These Two Great Organisations Of The English-speaking Democracies, The British Empire And The United States, Will Have To Be Somewhat Mixed Up Together In Some Affairs For Mutual And General Advantage. I Do Not View The Process With Any Misgivings. I Could Not Stop It If I Wished. Let It Roll On Full Flood, Inexorable, Irresistible, Benignant, To Broader Lands, And Better Days.

I Was On The Whole Considerably Discouraged By My School Days... It Is Not Pleasant To Feel Oneself So Completely Outclassed And Left Behind At The Very Beginning Of The Race.

It Was The Nation And The Race Dwelling All Round The Globe That Had The Lion's Heart. I Had The Luck To Be Called Upon To Give The Roar.

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?'

The Statesman Who Yields To War Fever Must Realise That Once The Signal Is Given, He Is No Longer The Master Of Policy But The Slave Of Unforeseeable And Uncontrollable Events.

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

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

It Is Impossible To Obtain A Conviction For Sodomy From An English Jury. Half Of Them Don't Believe That It Can Physically Be Done, And The Other Half Are Doing It.

My Conclusion On Freewill And Predestination- They Are Identical.

When I Look Round To See How We Can Win The War, I See That There Is Only One Sure Path . . . And That Is Absolutely Devastating, Exterminating Attack By Very Heavy Bombers From This Country Upon The Nazi Homeland.

The English Never Draw A Line Without Blurring It.

Quotations When Engraved Upon The Memory Give You Good Thoughts.

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

'keep England White' Is A Good Slogan.

The Only Guide To Man Is His Conscience.

The Essence And Foundation Of House Of Commons Debating Is Formal Conversation. The Set Speech, The Harangue Addressed To Constituents, Or To The Wider Public Out Of Doors, Has Never Succeeded Much In Our Small Wisely-built Chamber. To Do Any Good You Have Got To Get Down To Grips With The Subject And In Human Touch With The Audience.

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!

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

Plans Are Worthless. Planning Is Priceless.

Nothing Is Perfect On The Human Stage.

The Story Of The Human Race Is War. Except For Brief And Precarious Interludes There Has Never Been Peace In The World; And Long Before History Began Murderous Strife Was Universal And Unending.

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

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.

We Were Not Made By Nature To Work, Or Even To Play, From Eight O'clock In The Morning Till Midnight. We Ought To Break Our Days And Our Marches Into Two.

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

What Is A Fine Person Or A Beauteous Face, Unless Deportment Give Them Decent Grace; Blessed With All Other Requisites To Please, To Want The Striking Elegance Of Ease; Awkward, Embarrassed, Stiff, Without The Skill Of Moving Gracefully, Or Standing Still.

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

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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.

The British People Are Good All Through. You Can Test Them As You Would Put A Bucket Into The Sea And Always Find It Salt.

There Is No Sphere Of Human Thought In Which It Is Easier To Show Superficial Cleverness And The Appearance Of Superior Wisdom Than In Discussing Questions Of Currency And Exchange

Courage Is The Greatest Virtue Because It Guarantees All The Rest.

There Is No Doubt The Charge Was An Awful Gamble And That No Normal Precautions Were Possible. The Issue As Far As I Was Concerned Had To Be Left To Fortune Or To God - Or To Whatever May Decide These Things. I Am Content And Shall Not Complain.

I'd Rather Be Right Than Consistent.

Democracy Means That If The Doorbell Rings In The Early Hours, It Is Likely To Be The Milkman.

Without Victory There Is No Survival!

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.

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

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

A Love Of Tradition Has Never Weakened A Nation.

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

We Shall Draw From The Heart Of Suffering Itself The Means Of Inspiration And Survival.

The Belief That Security Can Be Obtained By Throwing A Small State To The Wolves Is A Fatal Delusion.

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.

The World, Nature, Human Beings, Do Not Move Like Machines. The Edges Are Never Clear-cut, But Always Frayed. Nature Never Draws A Line Without Smudging It.

It May Well Be That We Shall By A Process Of Sublime Irony Have Reached A State In This Story Where Safety Will Be The Sturdy Child Of Terror, And Survival The Twin Brother Of Annihilation.

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

I Like A Man Who Grins When He Fights.

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.

Plans Are Of Little Importance, But Planning Is Essential.

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.

It Is Arguable Whether The Human Race Have Been Gainers By The March Of Science Beyond The Steam Engine. Electricity Opens A Field Of Infinite Conveniences To Ever Greater Numbers, But They May Well Have To Pay Dearly For Them. But Anyhow In My Thought I Stop Short Of The Internal Combustion Engine Which Has Made The World So Much Smaller. Still More Must We Fear The Consequences Of Entrusting A Human Race So Little Different From Their Predecessors Of The So-called Barbarous Ages Such Awful Agencies As The Atomic Bomb. Give Me The Horse.

Improvident Habits, Slovenly Systems Of Agriculture, Sluggish Methods Of Commerce And Insecurity Of Property Exist Wherever The Followers Of The Prophet Rule Or Live.

Religion Of Islam

The Battle Of France Is Over. The Battle Of Britain Is About To Begin. Upon This Battle Depends The Future Of Christian Civilisation.

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

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.'

Elderly People And Those In Authority Cannot Always Be Relied Upon To Take Enlightened And Comprehending Views Of What They Call The Indiscretions Of Youth.

What Is Our Policy? ... To Wage War Against A Monstrous Tyranny, Never Surpassed In The Dark, Lamentable Catalogue Of Human Crime.

Greatest Victory

The First Duty Of A University Is To Teach Wisdom, Not Trade; Character, Not Technicalities.

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

Like Other Systems In Decay, The Roman Empire Continued To Function For Several Generations After Its Vitality Was Sapped. For Nearly A Hundred Years Our Island Was One Of The Scenes Of Conflict Between A Dying Civilisation And Lusty, Famishing Barbarism.

Oh, What Is The Matter With Poor Puggy-wug? Pet Him And Kiss Him And Give Him A Hug. Run And Fetch Him A Suitable Drug. Wrap Him Up Tenderly All In A Rug. That Is The Way To Cure Puggy-wug.

Singapore Could Only Be Taken After A Siege By An Army Of At Least 50,000 Men. It Is Not Considered Possible That The Japanese Would Embark On Such A Mad Enterprise.

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

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

It Is Of No Account; After All, The Old Bird Does Not Fly Far From His Nest.

Unless We Establish Some Form Of World Government, It Will Not Be Possible For Us To Avert A World War Iii In The Future.

World Government

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."

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

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?

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.

Don't Mind The Five Or More Million Germans. Stalin Will See To Them They Will Cease To Exist.

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!

Without Courage All Other Virtues Lose Their Meaning.

If The Past Sits In Judgment On The Present, The Future Will Be Lost.

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

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.

If You Find Something You Really Love, You Will Never Work Again.

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. What Is The Worth Of All This? The Only Guide To A Man Is His Conscience; The Only Shield To His Memory Is The Rectitude And Sincerity Of His Actions. It Is Very Imprudent To Walk Through Life Without This Shield, Because We Are So Often Mocked By The Failure Of Our Hopes And The Upsetting Of Our Calculations; But With This Shield, However The Fates May Play, We March Always In The Ranks Of Honor.

Don't Be Careless About Yourselves--on The Other Hand Not Too Careful. Live Well But Do Not Flaunt It. Laugh A Little And Teach Your Men To Laugh--get Good Humor Under Fire--war Is A Game That's Played With A Smile. If You Can't Smile, Grin. If You Can't Grin, Keep Out Of The Way Till You Can.

When The War Of The Giants Is Over The Wars Of The Pygmies Will Begin.

Rugby Is A Hooligans Game Played By Gentlemen.

... Painting A Picture Is Like Fighting A Battle; And Trying To Paint A Picture Is, I Suppose, Like Trying To Fight A Battle. It Is, If Anything, More Exciting Than Fighting It Successfully. But The Principle Is The Same.

Nothing Makes A Man More Reverent Than A Library.

Some People Did Not Like This Ceremonious Style. But After All When You Have To Kill A Man It Costs Nothing To Be Polite.

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.

The Difference Between Mere Management And Leadership Is Communication.

He Who Fails To Plan Is Planning To Fail.

I Had A Feeling Once About Mathematics - That I Saw It All. Depth Beyond Depth Was Revealed To Me - The Byss And Abyss. I Saw - As One Might See The Transit Of Venus Or Even The Lord Mayor's Show - A Quantity Passing Through Infinity And Changing Its Sign From Plus To Minus. I Saw Exactly Why It Happened And Why The Tergiversation Was Inevitable But It Was After Dinner And I Let It Go.

There Is Scarcely Anything More Important In The Government Of Men Than The Exact - I Will Ever Say Pedantic - Observance Of The Regular Forms By Which The Guilt Or Innocence Of Accused Persons Is Determined.

There Is No Worse Mistake In Public Leadership Than To Hold Out False Hope Soon To Be Swept Away.

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

My Mother Made A Brilliant Impression Upon My Childhood Life. She Shone For Me Like The Evening Star.

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

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

A Heightened Sense Of The Observation Of Nature Is One Of The Chief Delights That Have Come To Me Through Trying To Paint.

We Are Happier In Many Ways When We Are Old Than When We Were Young. The Young Sow Wild Oats. The Old Grow Sage.

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

The Fact That In Mohammedan Law Every Woman Must Belong To Some Man As His Absolute Property - Either As A Child, A Wife, Or A Concubine - Must Delay The Final Extinction Of Slavery Until The Faith Of Islam Has Ceased To Be A Great Power Among Men.

Ethics Evolve Naturally, And We Trample Upon Them With Laws Created By Reason And Experience.

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.

Immense Deposits Of Kimmeridge Clay, Containing The Oil-bearing Bands Or Seams, Stretch Across England From Dorsetshire To Lincolnshire. [an Early Political Recognition Of The Native Resource. The Geological Survey Had Identified The Inflammable Oil Shale In Reports Since At Least 1888.]

All Wisdom Is Not New Wisdom.

A Day Away From Chartwell Is A Day Wasted.

The Acts We Engage In For Appeasment Today, We Will Have To Remedy At Far Greater Cost And Remorse Tomorrow.

Let Us Reconcile Ourselves To The Mysterious Rhythm Of Our Destinies, Such As They Must Be In This World Of Space And Time.

A Lady Came Up To Me One Day And Said 'sir! You Are Drunk', To Which I Replied 'i Am Drunk Today Madam, And Tomorrow I Shall Be Sober But You Will Still Be Ugly.

The Almighty In His Infinite Wisdom Did Not See Fit To Create Frenchmen In The Image Of Englishmen.

The Soul Of Freedom Is Deathless; It Cannot, And Will Not Perish.

When You Are On A Great Horse, You Have The Best Seat You Will Ever Have.

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

Healthy Citizens Are The Greatest Asset Any Country Can Have.

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

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

It Was My Ambition All Of My Life To Be Master Of The Spoken Word.

Things Don't Happen To Me. I Happen To Things!

The Gin And Tonic Has Saved More Englishmen's Lives, And Minds, Than All The Doctors In The Empire.

I'm Going To Make A Long Speech Because I've Not Had The Time To Prepare A Short One.

Any Idiot Can See Something Wrong. But Can You See What Is Right?

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.

I Would Say To The House, As I Said To Those Who Have Joined This Government: I Have Nothing To Offer But Blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat.

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

The Maxim, "nothing Prevails But Perfection," May Be Spelled Paralysis.

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

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 Most Beautiful Voice In The World Is That Of An Educated Southern Woman.

Politics Is Like Waking Up In The Morning. You Never Know Whose Head You'll Find On The Pillow.

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

You Do Your Worst, And We'll Do Our Best.

Happy Are The Painters, For They Shall Not Be Lonely. Light And Colour, Peace And Hope, Will Keep Them Company To The End Of The Day.

The End Of The Day

Never, Ever Ever Ever Ever Give Up.

I Let The Argument Rip Healthily Between The Departments. This Is A Very Good Way To Finding Out The Truth.

Politics Is Almost As Exciting As War, And Quite As Dangerous. In War You Can Only Be Killed Once, But In Politics Many Times.

I Accumulated In Those Years So Fine A Surplus In The Book Of Observance That I Have Been Drawing Confidently Upon It Ever Since.

You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along.

Law Of Attraction

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.

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

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 Have Had To Eat My Own Words Many Times, And I Have Found It A Very Nourishing Diet.

If The Present Tries To Sit In Judgment Of The Past, It Will Lose The Future.

Never In The Field Of Human Conflict Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few.

A Prisoner Of War Is A Man Who Tries To Kill You And Fails, And Then Asks You Not To Kill Him.

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

Is The Only Lesson Of History To Be That Mankind Is Unteachable?

Human Beings Are Of Two Classes: Those Whose Work Is Work And Whose Pleasure Is Pleasure; And Those Whose Work And Pleasure Are One.

English Literature Is A Glorious Inheritance Which Is Open To All - There Are No Barriers, No Coupons, And No Restrictions. In The English Language And In Its Great Writers There Are Great Riches And Treasures, Of Which, Of Course, The Bible And Shakespeare Stand Along On The Highest Platform.

Do Not Trust Any Statistics You Did Not Fake Yourself.

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

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

We Hoped To Land A Wild Cat That Would Tear Out The Bowels Of The Boche. Instead We Have Stranded A Vast Whale With Its Tail Flopping About In The Water.

He Is Like A Female Llama Surprised In Her Bath.

The United States Invariably Does The Right Thing, After Having Exhausted Every Other Alternative.

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.

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

It Is Hard, If Not Impossible, To Snub A Beautiful Woman - They Remain Beautiful And The Snub Recoils.

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.

Are You An Action-oriented, Take-charge Person Interested In Exciting New Challenges? As Director Of A Major Public-sector Organization, You Will Manage A Large Armed Division And Interface With Other Senior Executives In A Team-oriented, Multinational Initiative In The Global Marketplace. Successful Candidate Will Have Above-average Oral-presentation Skills

History's Villains Are More Easily Recognized In Retrospect. In An Article Published In 1935 And Reprinted In 1937, Winston Churchill Expressed A Curious Ambivalence Towards The German Chancellor Prior To The Outbreak Of War: We Cannot Tell Whether Hitler Will Be The Man Who Will Once Again Let Loose Upon The World Another War In Which Civilization Will Irretrievably Succumb, Or Whether He Will Go Down In History As The Man Who Restored Honour And Peace Of Mind To The Great Germanic Nation. . . .

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.

Have Not Manet And Monet, Cézanne And Matisse, Rendered To Painting Something Of The Same Service Which Keats And Shelley Gave To Poetry After The Solemn And Ceremonious Literary Perfections Of The Eighteenth Century? They Have Brought Back To The Pictorial Art A New Draught Of Joie De Vivre; And The Beauty Of Their Work Is Instinct With Gaiety, And Floats In Sparkling Air. I Do Not Expect These Masters Would Particularly Appreciate My Defence, But I Must Avow An Increasing Attraction To Their Work.

I Am Fond Of Pigs. Dogs Look Up To Us. Cats Look Down On Us. Pigs Treat Us As Equals.

What Is The Use Of Living, If It Be Not To Strive For Noble Causes.

A Nation That Forgets Its Past Has No Future.

We Must Build A Kind Of United States Of Europe.

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