"We hoped to land a wild cat..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water.
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.”
“When you get a thing the way you want it, leave it alone.”
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“I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work.”
“Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more.”
“Better to dare mighty things and fail than to live in a grey twilight where there is neither victory nor defeat.”