Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
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Democracy   
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Source: Hansard, November 11, 1947
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years men will still say, "This was their finest hour."
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Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
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Victory   
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We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.
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It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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Democracy   
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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
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England   
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If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
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Military   
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If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
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[Clement Attle is] a sheep in sheep's clothing.
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
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Wealth   
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When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
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Miscellaneous   
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The first quality that is needed is audacity.
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I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
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Miscellaneous   
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The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age.
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Science   
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My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto.
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It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude.
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
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They told me that Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.
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Clement Attlee is a modest man who has a good deal to be modest about.
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