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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  Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

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  Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

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  I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

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  Out of constables we have made grandees, idiots have shared out the honours, thieves are making rich men for us, dark souls have called themselves patriots.

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  War propaganda comes down, in the end, to substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings.

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  The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

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