He wondered whether it was some novel form of gymnastics, or a new religion, or whether they were a party of lunatics out for an airing. They were a Searchlight Company of London Territorials, who were doing their exercises as well as they could without having the searchlights.

Winston Churchill · The source reads: “A friend of mine the other day saw a number of persons engaged in peculiar evolutions, genuflections and gestures.…He wondered whether it was some novel form of gymnastics, or a new religion…or whether they were a party of lunatics out for an airing.…they were a Searchlight Company of London Territorials, who were doing their exercises as well as they could without having the searchlights.” · House of Commons, 12 November 1936

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

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

“He wondered whether it was some novel form of gymnastics, or a new religion, or whether they were a party of lunatics out for an airing. They were a Searchlight Company of London Territorials, who were doing their exercises as well as they could without having the searchlights.”

“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.”

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