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"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

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"A love of tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril but the new view must come, the world must roll forward."

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"Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed."

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"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."

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"Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."

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"Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."

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"Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."

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"For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else."

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"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."

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"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

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"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job."

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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

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"I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."

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"I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

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"I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'"

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"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."

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"I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."

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"I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents."

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"I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."

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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."

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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."

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"It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link 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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"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room."

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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."

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"One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'."

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"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."

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"So they the Government go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."

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"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."

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"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."

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"The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself."

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"The price of greatness is responsibility."

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"The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."

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"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."

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"We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give."

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"We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hillswe shall never surrender."

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"We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it."

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"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."

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"When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber."

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