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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."

There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success.

I saw the spires of Oxford As I was passing by, The gray spires of Oxford Against a pearl-gray sky. My heart was with the Oxford men Who went abroad to die.

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men.