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[On Winston Churchill] Restless, almost intolerably so, without capacity for sustained and unexcited labour, egotistical,
They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, or something to be done with some
I may be bland, but bland works.
I expect to be disagreed with. That’s better than being a politician who decides to say nothing serious.
The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.
It is no use blowing the trumpet for the charge, and then looking around to find nobody following.
[On hearing Lady Mountbatten’s anti-monarchical views] How easy it seems for a semi-royal millionnairess, who has exhausted all the pleasures of money and position, to turn almost Communist!
The Confederacy [i.e., the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865] has been done to death by politicians.
All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
