"Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat."
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"When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking."
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"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
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"Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found."
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"You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."
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"There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them"
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"The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'."
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"Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft."
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"Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman."
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"When we run out of money, we have to start thinking."
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"If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another."
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"To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness."
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"I am convinced that there is no smarter, handier, or more adaptable body of troops in the world."
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"There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice."
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"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
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"We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."
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"Diversity is the one true thing we all have in common... Celebrate it every day."
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"A sheep in sheep's clothing."
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"It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do."
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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
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