Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds.
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.
Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour.
There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it and ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.
Thus, by every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill.
In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill.
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose… only then will you learn the game.
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