A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience."
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience."
I am not struck so much by the diversity of testimony as by the many-sidedness of truth.
I am one of those who would rather sink with faith than swim without it.
I would rather be an opportunist and float than go to the bottom with my principles around my neck
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Just as the results of inebriety are most painful to the habitually sober, and just as the greatest saints have often been the greatest sinners, so, when the first class brain does something stupid, the stupidity of that occasion is colossal.
Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.
Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.
The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion
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