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No battle is worth fighting except the last one.
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The analytical faculty is underdeveloped in women.
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To see, and not to speak, would be the great betrayal.
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Like the Roman, I seem to see the river Tiber foaming with much blood,
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It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.
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History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
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The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.
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A Tory is someone who thinks institutions are wiser than those who operate them.
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Of all political sacred-cows, education is the most sacred and the most cow-like.
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The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination.
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The happiest and most glorious hours of my life with books have been with German books.
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For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea.
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I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
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People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.
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I was born ambitious, I suppose I shall die ambitious. I can no more change it than the colour of my eyes.
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Anne Brown:
How would you like to be remembered?
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I should like to have been killed in the war.
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In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.
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As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood."
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Some of us personally witnessed what was done on the continent under that sign and it is a symbol we shall never forget.
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I hope those who shouted "Fascist" and "Nazi" are aware that before they were born I was fighting against Fascism and Nazism.
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To be and to remain a member of the House of Commons was the overriding and undiscussable motivation of my life as a politician.
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There is one thing you can be sure of with the Conservative Party, before anything else – they have a grand sense for where the votes are.
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Does the right hon. Lady understand—if she does not yet understand she soon will—that the penalty for treachery is to fall into public contempt?
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No one is forced to be a politician. It can only compare with fox-hunting and writing poetry. These are two things that men do for sheer enjoyment too.
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It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.
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Marriages are made in heaven and consummated on earth.
John Lyly
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Born:
June 16, 1912
Died:
February 8, 1998
(aged 85)
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