“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.”
Best“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.”
Politics“Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.”
Best“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”
Great“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
Truth“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
Nature“I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.”
Business“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.”
Courage“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”
Fear“Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
War“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”
Learning“A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.”
Change“We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
Truth“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Good“Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.”
Art“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.”
Morning“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”
Education“The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.”
Power“All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.”
Freedom“The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.”
Power“We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.”
Saintpatricksday“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
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