Quote #113

I think I can save the British Empire from anything - except the British.

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  1. We will not say thereafter that the Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like the Greeks!
  2. Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodnes…
  3. This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.
  4. Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. (to be found in 'My Early Life', the story of his first 25 years).
  5. America should have minded her own business and stayed out of the World War. If you hadn't entered the war the Allies would have made peace…
  6. A modest man, who has much to be modest about.
  7. William now directed his archers to shoot high into the air, so that the arrows would fall behind the shield-wall, and one of these pierced…
  8. A nation trying to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to pull himself up by the handles.

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