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Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.

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The game of life does not proceed like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes they make five, or minus four, and sometimes the blackboard topples over in the middle of the sum and the pedagogue is left with a black eye.

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Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life? Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

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Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

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Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut.

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Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property.

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The jury system has come to stand for all we mean by English justice. The scrutiny of 12 honest jurors provides defendants and plaintiffs alike a safeguard from arbitrary perversion of the law.

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Don't mind the five or more million Germans. Stalin will see to them they will cease to exist.

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When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

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One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.

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A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'

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He who fails to plan is planning to fail.

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Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

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[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

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The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes.

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

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I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.

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