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There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.

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There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.

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Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society.

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...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come.

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When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

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I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.

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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.

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When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime.

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You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

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All babies look like me. But then, I look like all babies.

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

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I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected.

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it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations.

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A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems.

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Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.

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Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

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It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two of them nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying; and two perhaps can be settled.

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I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

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Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms.

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I have lived seventy-eight years without hearing of bloody places like Cambodia.

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