"Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once."
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"Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world."
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"To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."
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"it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people."
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"You must understand that this war is not against Hitler or National Socialism, but against the strength of the German people, which is to be smashed once and for all, regardless of whether it is in the hands of Hitler or a Jesuit priest."
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"I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof."
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"In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable."
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"It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience."
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"Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice."
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"A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow."
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"The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative."
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"It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than it is to apply them."
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"If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter."
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"The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all."
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"Nature will not be admired by proxy."
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"Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely."
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"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."
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"Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best."
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"Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones."
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"Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat."
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