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"We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence."
"Of all the branches of men in the forces there is none which shows more devotion and faces grimmer perils than the submariners."
"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
"To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour."
"If Britain must choose between Europe and the open sea, she must always choose the open sea."
"Schools have not necessarily much to do with education...they are mainly institutions of control where certain basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school."
"I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
"The flags of the Confederate States of America were very important and a matter of great pride to those citizens living in the Confederacy. They are also a matter of great pride for their descendants as part of their heritage and history."
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
"No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle."
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
"Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty."
"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them."
"The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people."
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
"Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested."
"Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."
"The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men."