"There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion."
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"A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."
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""Mr. Churchill you're drunk!" Mr. Churchill: "And you, Lady Astor, are ugly. As for my condition, it will pass by the morning. You, however, will still be ugly."
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"We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
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"If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack."
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"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce."
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"Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party"
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"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
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"As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us."
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"A joke is a very serious thing."
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"Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
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"Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted."
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"If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law."
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"A man is about as big as the things that make him angry."
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"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
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"You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer."
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"The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."
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"It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."
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"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
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