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Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
When I make a statement of facts within my knowledge I expect it to be accepted.
The Second World War (1939)
Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
The Second World War (1939)
The maxim Nothing avails but perfection may be spelt shorter: Paralysis.
The Second World War (1939)
I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
War is horrible, but slavery is worse, and you may be sure that the British people would rather go down fighting than live in servitude.
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the Government of my country. I make up for lost time when I am at home.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
The Second World War (1939)
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
Eaten bread is soon forgotten. Dangers which are warded off by effective precautions and foresight are never even remembered.
The World Crisis (1923)
Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
My Early Life: A Roving Commission (1930)
If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.
The Second World War (1939)
Unless some effective supranational government can be set up and brought quickly into action, the prospects of peace and human progress are dark and doubtful.
Robert Muller (1999)
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?
Vive la France! Long live also the forward march of the common people in all the lands towards their just and true inheritance, and towards the broader and fuller age.
The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny.
I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.
The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War (1898)