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Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.

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What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

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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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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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Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!

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Leadership is the intelligent use of power.

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If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism.

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The most formidable people in the world, and now the most dangerous, people who... lay down the doctrine that every frontier must be the starting out point for invasion.

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I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

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Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

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No one ever finds life worth living - one has to make it worth living.

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The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

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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 people of Asia were slaves, because they had not learned how to pronounce the word 'no'.

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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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There are plenty of good ideas, if only they can be backed with the power of action.

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If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

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What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun.

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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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I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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