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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. . . as he had often forcibly argued, all experience tended to show that a man must die and whether he died of a miserable old age in his own country, or prematurely of damp in the bottom of a foreign mine, was surely of little consequence, provided that by a change in his mode of life he benefited the British Empire.John Galsworthy
When one grew old, the whole world was in conspiracy to limit freedom, and for what reason--just to keep the breath in him a little longer. He did not want it at such cost.
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But dawn has power to fertilise the most matter-of-fact vision . . .
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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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Its not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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He was frightened by the effect he had produced, and like most men with but little courage, he sought at once to justify himself by bullying.
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