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"No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance."
"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
"Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous."
"When I find a ladybug I ask the butler to take it outside instead of killing it."
"Golf. Trying to knock a tiny ball into an even smaller hole with implements ill suited to the purpose."
"If you find a job you love, you'll never work again."
"Without execution, thinking is mere idleness."
"It's Never Over 'till it's over! Never Give Up! Never."
"Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting."
"I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught."
"I drink a great deal. I sleep a little, and I smoke cigar after cigar. That is why I am in two-hundred-percent form."
"Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."
"If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost."
"Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you."
"True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information."
"We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy."
"We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed."
"[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume."
"Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
"No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith."