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You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

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I'd prefer to be right than consistent.

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The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

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Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

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If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.

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When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

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I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

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We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

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It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter

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If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

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

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No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.

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Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

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The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

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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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The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.

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Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

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It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian.

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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.

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Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

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