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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won...
There was unanimous, automatic, unquestioned agreement around our table.
Source: On...
In defeat unbeatable; in victory unbearable.
Source: Referring to Viscount...
Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a...
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
Nothing recalls the past so potently as a smell.
Source: My Early Life.
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The first quality that is needed is audacity.
Source: Painting as a Pleasure,...
Like the Mississippi, it just keeps rolling along. Let it roll. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible,...
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is ready for the ordeal of meeting me is another...
The Times is speechless and takes three columns to express its speechlessness.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
Source: On his...
The War was decided in the first twenty days of fighting, and all that happened afterwards consisted in battles which,...
We must just KBO ('Keep Buggering On').
Source: Remark, Dec 1941. Finest Hour, (M....
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...
He is one of those orators of whom it was well said, 'Before they get up they do not know what they are going to say;...
[Their] insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising...
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
Source: Quoted by...
And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.
Source: Replying...
It is a remarkable comment on our affairs that the former prime minister of a great sovereign state should thus be...