"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting."
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"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."
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"Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle."
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"You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears."
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"Things do not get better by being left alone."
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"Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path."
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"No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta."
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"There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you."
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"Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share."
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"You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure."
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"I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar."
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"Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it."
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"Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told."
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"...the schemes of the International Jews. The adherents of this sinister confederacy are mostly men reared up among the unhappy populations of countries where Jews are persecuted on account of their race... This world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilisation... this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."
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"Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome."
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"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."
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"Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out."
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"When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast."
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"I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional."
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"You create your own universe as you go along."
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