You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.


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Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the pat...
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I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I s...
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For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to histor...
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The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
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To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
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When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own coun...
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It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a tim...
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What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cea...
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A state of society where men may not speak their minds cannot long endure.
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War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep...
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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.
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He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
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History is written by the victors.
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We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket...
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If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
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War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
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Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
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It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad t...
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When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
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No crime is so great as daring to excel.
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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thi...
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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I never worry about action, but only inaction.
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I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
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Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do...
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This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
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My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alco...
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
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Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarante...
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I am easily satisfied with the very best.
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Never, never, never give up.
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Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
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We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be;...
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialis...
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I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuin...
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The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground...
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The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there ...
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Success is in the details.
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For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
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Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothin...
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if ...
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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.
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The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not...
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