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Douglas Bader

“Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools”. –Douglas Bader

William Wallace

“We come here with no peaceful intent, but ready for battle, determined to avenge our wrongs and set our country free”. –William Wallace

Osbert Sitwell

“Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space”. –Osbert Sitwell

Max Beerbohm

“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him”. –Max Beerbohm

John Vanbrugh

“A slighted woman knows no bounds”. –John Vanbrugh

William Petty

“That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World”. –William Petty

Arthur C. Clarke

“Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the non-existence of Zeus or Thor — but they have few followers now”. –Arthur C. Clarke

Francis Galton

“One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigor of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands”. –Francis Galton

Edward Heath

“A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing”. –Edward Heath

Edward Coke

“Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times”. –Edward Coke

Walter Scott

“For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears”. –Walter Scott

Daniel Webster

“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on Earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together”. –Daniel Webster

Thomas More

“Ask a woman’s advice, and whatever she advises, do the very reverse and you’re sure to be wise”. –Thomas More

Winston Churchill

“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it”. –Winston Churchill