#tho

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#author #eminent #end #error #god

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#am #content #existing #explosives #feel

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. ↗

— Winston Churchill

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I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#am #anything #certainly #fact #i

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#i #martyrdom #postponed #preferred #prepared

Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#corpse #flock #innovation #sheep #shepherd

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#defeat #difficult #less #more #problems

I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things by people who couldn't really do it, you can do some pretty wonderfully, imaginative horrific things to teachers. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#could #french #horrific #i #imaginative

I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect. ↗

— Sandra Cisneros

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