Tell the truth to the British people. They are a tough people, a robust people. They may be a bit offended at the moment, but if you have told them exactly what is going on, you have insured yourself against complaints and reproaches which are very unpleasant when they come home on the morrow of some disillusion.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 23 November 1932

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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The map appears to us more real than the land.

D. H. Lawrence · The source reads: “The map appears to us more real than the land. Short sighted almost to blindness, we [pore] over the chart, map our journeys and confirm them: and we cannot see life itself giving us the lie the whole time.” · Study of Thomas Hardy (1914)

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

The Bible · 1 Thessalonians 5:21

The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

Albert Einstein · To Beatrice Frohlich, 17 December 1952.

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“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?”

“The map appears to us more real than the land.”

“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”

“The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.”