Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
-Winston Churchill
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
"He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."
“America will always do the right thing, but only after exhausting all the other options.”