A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.
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We are all familiar with the argument Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.John Galsworthy
If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.
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There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
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. . . for events are as much the parents of the future as they were the children of the past.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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When a man with the constitution of Montague Dartie has exercised self control for months from religious motives, and remains unrewarded, he does not curse God and die, he curses God and lives, to the distress of his family.
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