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Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record.

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Before America entered the war [WW2] I knew we could not win it, but after she entered I knew we could not lose

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We shall fight in parking lots, we shall fight in empty fields and on wide streets, we shall never surrender.

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Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

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Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918.

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The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. Therefore our supreme effort must be to gain overwhelming mastery in the Air. The Fighters are our salvation . . . but the Bombers alone provide the means of victory. . . . In no other way at present visible can we hope to overcome the immense military power of Germany.

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We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two.

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If you destroy a free market you create a black market.

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He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success.

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At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity.

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A man who gets the reputation of rising at dawn can sleep to noon.

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I have had a number of threatening letters each week, some telling me the actual time and method of my death, and I don't like it.

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Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

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Sometimes our best is simply not enough.... We have to do what is required.

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A man must choose his own way of life, and…it is only by following out one’s own bent that there can be the really harmonious life.” [In an interview conducted by Bram Stoker]

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It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own

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If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

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Those whose work and pleasure are one... are... Fortune's favoured children.

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It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest.

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Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly.

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