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I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.
The United Nations was set up not to get us to heaven, but only to save us from hell.
I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one.
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Whenever I feel the need to take some exercise I lie down until the feeling goes away.
I have had to eat my own words many times, and I have found it a very nourishing diet.
Americans always do the right thing, once they have exhausted all other possibilities.
I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.
Unteachable from infancy to tomb — There is the first & main characteristic of mankind.
It would be an inconvenient rule if nothing could be done until everything can be done.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.
When someone says to me, Ugh, you smoke. I reply, Ugh, you're ugly. I can quit smoking.
It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic.
No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.
I play for high stakes and given an audience - there is no act too daring or too noble.
For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future.
I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.
The cost of solving the Comet mystery must be reckoned neither in money nor in manpower.
Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.
If it weren't for painting, I wouldn't live; I couldn't bear the extra strain of things.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path.
All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal
Never give in, never! Be it concerning large things or small things, never, never, never!
I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.
Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it all others depend.
We make our buildings and afterwards they make us. They regulate the course of our lives.
I have found in my experience of war, that plans are useless, but planning is invaluable.
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
When they told me that by the year 2100 women would rule the world, my reply was 'Still?'
Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.
How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years.
Those who serve supreme causes must not consider what they can get but what they can give.
If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through.
Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one.
No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.