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I myself find waiting more tiring than action.

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They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.

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Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.

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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 out of the way till you can.

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Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.

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Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses.

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You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer.

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Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

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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 painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home.

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Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.

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It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.

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It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

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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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Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world.

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Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

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I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.

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The opposition occupies the benches in front of you, but the enemy sits behind you

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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.

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We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

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