When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. We are angry at each other much of the time.
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Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness of a road leading towards the unknown.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.
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You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
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The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines.
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Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
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I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
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A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.
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