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- Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
- Charles De Gaulle (1890 - 1970)
- One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Second World War (1948)
- Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech in November 1942
- Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Radio speech, 1941
- The rich are the scum of the earth in every country.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936), Flying Inn (1914)
- It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.
- Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902), Erewhon (1872)
- The way to win an atomic war is to make certain it never starts.
- Omar Bradley (1893 - 1981), Speech to Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1948
- Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
- Samuel Beckett (1906 - 1989), The Unnamable (1959) page 418
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- W. H. Auden (1907 - 1973)
- In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
- Brooks Atkinson (1894 - 1984), Once Around the Sun (1951)
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