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"Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history."
"There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England."
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
"If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything."
"Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance."
"Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state."
"After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil."
"I never worry about action, but only inaction."
"Perfectionism spells paralysis."
"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe."
"Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
"Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed."
"First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock."
"We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty."
"The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness."
"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
"All the great things are simple."
"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."
"Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."