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- There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), in a telegram, 1919
- The chief business of the American people is business.
- Calvin Coolidge (1872 - 1933), Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925
- Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
- The worst tragedy for a poet is to be admired through being misunderstood.
- Jean Cocteau (1889 - 1963)
- 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)
- The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943
- I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Radio speech, 1939
- Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 11, 1947
- The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, June 10, 1941
- 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."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, May 13, 1940
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