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I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters.

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War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.

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Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

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When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public.

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I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

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Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

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A modest little person, with much to be modest about.

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No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong.

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Please put the ladybug outside without harming her. (to his butler)

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A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

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I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.

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In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

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I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.

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There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.

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Strategy is all very well, but it pays to give thought from time to time to the results.

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I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself

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Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for."

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The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short. Referring to the discovery of atomic energy.

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it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

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No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.

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