This is a permanent draft version and will get updated from time to time.
Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely – let the reader mark it – that they are identical.
My Early Life
Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts.
If you’re going through hell, keep going.
“You have enemies? Good. It means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.”
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen
To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.
Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
“A politician needs 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.”
“Show me a young Conservative and I’ll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I’ll show you someone with no brains.”
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy
We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
A sheep in sheep’s clothing. (On Clement Atlee)
Continuous effort—not strength or intelligence—is the key to unlocking our potential.
Lady Astor: “Winston, if I were your wife I’d put poison in your coffee.”
Winston Churchill: “Nancy, if I were your husband I’d drink it.”
We can always count on the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.
Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.”
“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”
“Don’t interrupt me while I’m interrupting.”
“A joke is a very serious thing.”
“From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”
“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time—a tremendous whack.”
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.” (On the ill-informed)
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”
“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”
“I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.”
“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”
“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.”
“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”
In those days he was wiser than he is now—he used frequently to take my advice.”
“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, then asks you not to kill him.”
“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.”
“If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”
“Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.”
“He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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