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"Politics is the womb in which war develops."
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"Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones, but by contrary extreme positions."
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"The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible."
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"Politics is a game where only the strong survive."
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"But nowadays -- Our weakness for the last few years has been the ineffectiveness of the Opposition. This Labour Party has never had the quality of a fighting Opposition. It has just sucked the life out of Radicalism. It has never had the definite idealism of the Whigs and Liberals. 'Give us more employment and slightly higher pay and be sure of our contentment,' says Labour. 'We're loyal. We know our place. But we don't like being unemployed.' What good is that as Opposition? It's about as much opposition as a mewing cat. We mean more than that. I tell you frankly. Our task, I take it, my task, is to reinstate that practical working Opposition which has always been Old England's alternative line of defence... For the good of all of us..."
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"Pops added,"you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve.""And if you do, you never get the results you expected," (Katherine) replied."
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"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
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"All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility."
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"The skill of the politician consists in guessing what people can be brought to think advantageous to themselves; the skill of the experts consists in calculating what really is advantageous, provided people can be brought to think so. (The proviso is essential, because measures which arouse serious resentment are seldom advantageous, whatever merits they may have otherwise.) The power of the politician, in a democracy, depends upon his adopting the opinions which seem right to the average man. It is useless to urge that politicians ought to be high-minded enough to advocate what enlightened opinion considers good, because if they do they are swept aside for others."
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"The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
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"Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
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"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy."
Surprise
"All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make things seem grotesque and larger than they really are."
Action
"I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together."
Nature
"The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation form their purposes."
War
"Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating."
Nature
"Principles and rules are intended to provide a thinking man with a frame of reference."
Man
"War is the domain of physical exertion and suffering."
War
"Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead."
Truth
"If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles."
Leadership
"Many intelligence reports in war are contradictory; even more are false, and most are uncertain."
Intelligence
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