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"A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."
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"You weren't able to talk sense into him?"Well, we kind of tried to kill each other in a duel to the death."I see. You tried the diplomatic approach."
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"The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
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"Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto."
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"If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
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"The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
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"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."
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"Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once."
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"Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, "Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down."
Humor
"In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
Strategy
"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
Architecture
"I've gotten more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
Life
"Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force."
History
"We seek no treasure, we seek no territorial gains, we seek only the right of man to be free; we seek his rights to worship his god, to lead his life in his own way, secure from persecution. As the humble labourer returned from his work when the day is don, and sees the smoke curling upwards from his cottage home in the serene evening sky, we wish him to know that no rat-a-tat of the secret police upon his door will disturb his leisure or interrupt his rest."
Society
"Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing."
Motivation
"Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham."
Politics
"Logic, like science, must be the servant and not the master of man."
Philosophy
"In the long years to come, not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done, and they will say 'do not despair, do not yield...march straightforward."
Freedom
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