"He has to conceal what he would..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal.
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“It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken.”
“Science should be on tap, not on top.”
“No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.”
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“I never wanted to be a career politician. I always am interested just to take on challenges that everyone says are impossible to do and to take it on.”
“October is the cruelest month of any election year, but by then, the pain is so great that even the strong are like jelly and time has lost all meaning for anybody still involved in a political campaign. By that time, even candidates running unopposed have abandoned all hope of victory and live only for the day when they will finally be free to seek vengeance on all those treacherous bastards who once passed themselves off as loyal friends and allies and swore they were only in it because they all shared the same hopes and dreams.”
“I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.”
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“There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.”
“JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time.”
“When my love swears that she is made of truth,I do believe her, though I know she lies.”