- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. »
- We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. »
- I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. »
- The price of greatness is responsibility. »
- For myself I am an optimist--it does not seem to be much use being anything else. »
- Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. »
- I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. »
- We will have no truce or parlay with you Hitler, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst -- and we will do our best. »
- 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 other forms that have been tried from time to time. »
- To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. »
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