"The difference between Hitler's speeches and Churchill's speeches was that Hitler made you think he could do anything; Churchill made you think you could do anything."
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"I'd like thousands of schools as good as the one I went to, Eton."
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"When Cameron's Conservatives come to power it will be a golden age for cyclists and an Elysium of cycle lanes, bike racks, and sharia law for bike thieves. And I hope that cycling in London will become almost Chinese in its ubiquity."
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"I think I was once given cocaine but I sneezed so it didn't go up my nose. In fact, it may have been icing sugar."
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"He is the resounding human rebuttal to all Marxist historians who think history is the story of vast and impersonal economic forces. The point of the Churchill Factor is that one man can make all the difference."
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"Yes, cannabis is dangerous, but no more than other perfectly legal drugs. It's time for a rethink, and the Tory party - the funkiest, most jiving party on Earth - is where it's happening."
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"I lead a life of blameless domesticity and always have done."
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"I want you to know that I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London."
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"I would ban sweets from school - but this pressure to bring in healthy food is too much."
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"London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country."
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"It was the kind of blind, gulping, insensate greed that you associate with some milk-eyed creature in a volcanic fissure at the bottom of the Marianas Trench-an organism with no understanding of the existence, let alone the feelings, of other members of the ecosystem."
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"Hitler showed the evil that could be done by the art of rhetoric. Churchill showed how it could help to save humanity."
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"But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, then they should be able to do so with all the freedom and exhilaration of our woad-painted ancestors."
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"The dreadful truth is that when people come to see their MP, they have run out of better ideas."
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"Volunteering is also now more crucial than ever in helping people find work."
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"I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around."
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"The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition."
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"My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as an olive."
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"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."
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"Churchill knew instinctively what was wrong with communism - that it repressed liberty; that it replaced individual discretion with state control; that it entailed the curtailment of democracy, and therefore that it was tyrannous."
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