"Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved."
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"I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself"
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"He is like a female llama surprised in her bath."
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"Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?"
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"A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat."
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"The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions."
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"An American diplomat is sometimes like a bull who carries his own china shop around with him."
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"I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf."
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"Human beings are of two classes: those whose work is work and whose pleasure is pleasure; and those whose work and pleasure are one."
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"If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!"
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"The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering."
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"The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power."
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"I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself."
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"I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes."
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"Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world."
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"No matter how enmeshed a commander becomes in the elaboration of his own thoughts, it is sometimes necessary to take the enemy into account."
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"Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government"
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"What a fool I have been!"
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"If, however, there is to be a war of nerves let us make sure our nerves are strong and are fortified by the deepest convictions of our hearts."
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"A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party."
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