I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.


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Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodw...
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely ...
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Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singula...
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In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
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Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in th...
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
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No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
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In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best ...
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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contrad...
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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
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There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right.
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The only guide to man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerit...
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An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile -- hoping it will eat him last.
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The English never draw a line without blurring it.
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Socialism is like a dream. Sooner or later you wake up to reality.
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The substance of the eminent Socialist gentlemen's speech is that making a profit is a sin. It is my...
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
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Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.
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I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism.
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No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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Never give in! Never give in! Never, never, never. Never -- in anything great or small, large or pet...
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Responsibility is the price of greatness.
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When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
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Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
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We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at ...
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There is no such thing as a good tax.
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.
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Opening amenities are often opening inanities.
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If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit t...
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Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
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Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
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Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if not...
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It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
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It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a...
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been...
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If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
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I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponen...
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely...
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I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is much better policy to prophesy after the event ...
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However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you a...
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Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
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