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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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The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

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Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

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I don't like standing near the edge of a platform when an express train is passing through. I like to stand right back and if possible get a pillar between me and the train. I don't like to stand by the side of a ship and look down into the water. A second's action would end everything. A few drops of desperation.

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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

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There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

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It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

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It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

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The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

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Without execution, thinking is mere idleness.

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It is better to do the wrong thing that to do nothing.

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Lobbyists are the touts of protected industries.

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War is horrible, but slavery is worse.

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The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid.

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My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.

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The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.

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Nothing is perfect on the human stage.

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Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

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I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.

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I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'

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