"There is no such thing as a good tax."
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"We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls."
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"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains."
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"My education was interrupted only by my schooling."
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"No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living."
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"Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong."
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"A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."
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"No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."
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"Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
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"If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised."
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"A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind."
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"We must build a kind of United States of Europe."
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"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
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"Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds."
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"When you are going through hell, keep on going. Never never never give up."
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"A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble."
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"These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days."
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"Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn."
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"Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical."
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"Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer "Aye" or "No" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound."
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