"The further back I look, the further forward I can see."
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"Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don't want it; we won"
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"I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message."
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"Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field."
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"Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept."
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"Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise."
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"I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth."
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"There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble."
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"We are not meant to find peace in this world. The spirit of life cannot exist without effort. Destroy the rivalries of man and nations and you will have destroyed all that makes for betterment and progress on Earth."
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"Some civil servants are neither servants nor civil."
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"We must recognise that we have a great inheritance in our possession, which represents the prolonged achievement of the centuries; that there is not one of our simple uncounted rights today for which better men than we are have not died on the scaffold or the battlefield. We have not only a great treasure; we have a great cause. Are we taking every measure within our power to defend that cause?"
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"There are bitter weeds in England."
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"Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful."
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"I did not like the man [Niels Bohr] when you showed him to me, with his hair all overhis head."
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"Personal initiative, competitive selection, the profit motive, corrected by failure and the infinite process of good housekeeping and the personal ingenuity-here constitute the life of a free society."
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"Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room."
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"Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better."
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"We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains."
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"Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property."
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"I love learning, but hate being taught."
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