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The test of a people is what they can do when they're tired.
One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words.
I always like to learn, but I don't always like to be taught.
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Air superiority is the ultimate expression of military power.
An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.
Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Our dog chases people on a bike. We've had to take it off him.
I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you.
We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks.
Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety, and variety alone.
Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
These, Gentlemen, are the opinions upon which I base my facts.
Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry.
Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses.
There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.
And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.
No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.
Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary.
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.
They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.
The test of real character is what a man does when he is tired.
I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it.
Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?
Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty.
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us.
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance.
Champagne is the wine of civilization and the oil of government.
We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.
The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.
He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.
Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.
Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.
Any idiot can see something wrong. But can you see what is right?
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.
We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes.
The soul of freedom is deathless; it cannot, and will not perish.
Even the most eminent persons are subject to the laws of gravity.
Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.
In order to become a great man, one must first be a great rascal.
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
If you find something you really love, you will never work again.