Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “Anyone can rat, it takes a bit of ingenuity to re-rat.” · Churchill on crossing the floor twice, Conservative to Liberal in 1904 and back in 1924.

I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

Winston Churchill · Article “Consistency in Politics”, Pall Mall, July 1927

At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?

Winston Churchill · To Michael Collins, who complained that a price had been put on his head

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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanac. July

Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?

Anthony Trollope · Phineas Finn (1869), ch. 47

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

Mark Twain · Following the Equator (1897), Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar, ch. 8

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“Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat.”

“I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.”

“Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.”

“At any rate it was a good price—£5,000. Look at me—£25 dead or alive. How would you like that?”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?”

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”