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Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.
It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do.
Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes.
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
If you wanted nothing done at all, Balfour was the man for the job.
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)
In politics nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.
Unemployment is of vital importance, particularly to the unemployed.
It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.
Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.
They seem to have moved from total opposition to total subservience.
When you hold back the successful, you penalize those who need help.
It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
Most of the world's work is done by people who don't feel very well.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.
Victory is not final. Defeat is not failure. It's all about courage.
Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses.
A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.
Diplomacy is the art of telling plain truths without giving offense.
We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.
It is a good thing to be laughed at. It is better than to be ignored.
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question.
I don't think it's the role of the prime minister to court the press.
The price of freedom is still, and always will be, eternal vigilance.
You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.
I think it's important for people like me to evaluate and reevaluate.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.
If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.
If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.
'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.
Lots of folks are forced to skimp to support a government that won't.