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Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.