When I warned them the French that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!


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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his ...
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations...
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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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I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their wil...
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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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