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"The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands."
"I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything."
"In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal."
"Success always demands a greater effort."
"The Aryan stock is bound to triumph."
"Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well."
"Things don't happen to me. I happen to things!"
"Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks."
"The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."
"No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong."
"There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."
"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."
"This movement among the Jews is not new... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing... It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century."
"I have never accepted what many people have kindly said - namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it."
"An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty."
"This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."
"When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne"
"Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
"Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
"The Pashtun tribes are always engaged in private or public war. Every man is a warrior, a politician and a theologian Every large house is a real feudal fortress....Eve ry family cultivates its vendetta; every clan, its feud....Nothing is ever forgotten and very few debts are left unpaid."