How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
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I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.Winston Churchill
When I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken
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Great and good are seldom the same man.
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Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into 3 classes those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death.
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him out to the public.
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Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend.
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