"The only thing that ever really frightened..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.
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“It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State”
“Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.”
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“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”
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“Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.”
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