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| Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. | | Attitude | |
| Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham. | | Uncategorized | |
| Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter. | | Uncategorized | |
| Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat. | | Uncategorized | |
| Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death and those who are bored to death | | Uncategorized | |
| Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. | | Uncategorized | |
| By being so long in the lowest form I gained an immense advantage over the cleverest boys . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the normal British sentence - which is a noble thing. | | Uncategorized | |
| By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. | | Uncategorized | |
| Censure is often useful, praise is often deceitful | | Praise | |
| Christopher Columbus was the first socialist: he didn’t know where he was going, he didn’t know where he was… and he did it all at taxpayers expense. | | Uncategorized | |
| Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will | | Civilization; Doing Your Best; Mankind; Peace | |
| Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential | | Intelligence; Potential | |
| Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. | | Courage; Enthusiasm | |
| Courage is rightly considered the foremost of the virtues, for upon it, all others depend. | | Courage | |
| Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. | | Courage | |
| Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. | | Courage | |
| Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. | | Courage | |
| Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. | | Criticism | |
| Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! | | Uncategorized | |
| Death came very easily to her. She had lived such an innocent and loving life of service to others and held such a simple faith, that she had no fears at all and did not seem to mind very much. | | Death and dying | |
