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I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen.

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I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.

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It saves a lot of trouble if, instead of having to earn money and save it, you can just go and borrow it.

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If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.

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Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.

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Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory.

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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.]

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Success and happiness spring from facing failure after failure with enthusiasm.

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The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

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

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In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once.

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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial.

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You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.

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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.

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[Much] as war attracts me and fascinates my mind with its tremendous situations, I feel more deeply every year . . . what vile and wicked folly and barbarism it all is.

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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.

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Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.

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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.

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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.

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