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This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

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Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

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There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

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Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none.

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I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.

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... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same.

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I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.

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All wisdom is not new wisdom.

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Wealth, taste and leisure can bring many things but they do not bring happiness.

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Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind.

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[Magna Carta provided] "a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool.

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The only guide to man is his conscience.

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I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.

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The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two.

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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

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No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

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Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.

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And a pamphlet called Pick me up There is no genuine hatred against Herr Hitler.

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You know, in war, you don't have to be nice. You only have to be right.

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