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"Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life."
"There comes a special moment in everyone's life, a moment for which that person was born. That special opportunity, when he seizes it, will fulfill his mission - a mission for which he is uniquely qualified. In that moment, he will find greatness. It is his finest hour."
"History is written by the victors."
"Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning."
"The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense."
"A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up."
"Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing."
"My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me."
"Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters."
"If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail."
"Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains."
"Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning."
"I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen."
"I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future."
"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."
"It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses."
"Listing your personal milestones is like storing a pocketful of sunshine for a rainy day. Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required."
"I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire."
"Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm."
"I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations"