"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
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"It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter"
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"It has not fallen to your lot to command great armies. You had to create them, organize them and inspire them."
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"For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank."
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"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham."
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"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars."
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"I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality."
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"Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day."
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"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times."
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"The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister."
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"Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses."
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"Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts."
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"The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery."
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"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation."
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"I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
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"The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble."
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"We used to be a source of fuel; we are increasingly becoming a sink. These supplies of foreign liquid fuel are no doubt vital to our industry, but our ever-increasing dependence upon them ought to arouse serious and timely reflection. The scientific utilisation, by liquefaction, pulverisation and other processes, or our vast and magnificent deposits of coal, constitutes a national object of prime importance."
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"The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory."
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"God for a month of power & a good shorthand writer."
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"He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal."
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