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I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.


Winston Churchill


#another #great #i #i am #maker

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.


Winston Churchill


#always #am #being #i #i am

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and the toys cleverer with every generation, and there's no such thing for either side as enough security. Not for the main players, not for the nasty little newcomers who each year run themselves up a suitcase bomb and join the club. We get tired of believing that, because we're human. We may even con ourselves into believing the threat has gone away. It never will. Never, never, never." "So, who'll save us then, Walt?" Barley asked. "You and Nedsky?" "Vanity, if anything will, which I doubt," Walter retorted. "No leader wants to go down in history as the ass who destroyed his country in an afternoon. And funk, I suppose. Most of our gallant politicians do have a narcissistic objection to suicide, thank God.


John le Carré


#nuclear-weapons #russia #spy #war #dreams

The power of lying is much less than the power of what is not to be discussed.


Mason Cooley


#less #lying #much #power #than

According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.


Marcus Tullius Cicero


#another #become #damages #fair #injuries

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.


John Keats


#ever #kisses #last #new #sweetest

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.


Winston Churchill


#claimed #everything #happens #right #war

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.


Winston Churchill


#build #day #destroy #laborious #may

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.


Winston Churchill


#almighty #anything #asked #atmosphere #attempted

If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.


Winston Churchill


#devil #favourable #hell #hitler #house






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