"Never give in, never give in, never give in."
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"I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside."
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"Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?"
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"Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense."
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"From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last 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 head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire."
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"I'm too busy. I have no time for worry."
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"Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away."
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"A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life."
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"I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected."
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"The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action."
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"You see these dictators up on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. They're afraid of words and thought. ... They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words. ... A state of society where men may not speak their mind - where children denounce their parents to the police - where a businessman or small shopkeeper ruins his competitor by telling tales about his private opinion. Such a state of society cannot long endure if it is continually in contact with the healthy outside world."
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"There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do."
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"If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible."
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"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
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"The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation."
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"They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done."
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"The English never draw a line without blurring it."
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"We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy."
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"Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches."
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"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
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