True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
From Winston Churchill
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
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.
Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
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