"Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor."

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Source : In Sir Henry Channon Chips: the Diaries (1967) 12 June 1940

Beverley Baxter

#Government Quotes #Towns Quotes #Married Quotes

“I've always been in a rebel.”
“I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.”
“To be loved is the birthright of every mewling babe, but, once grown, a man is not assured of such affection.”
“There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.”
“It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue.”

Source : "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by by Leon Goldensohn, ed. by Robert Gellately, p. 166, 2004.
“Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.”
“I'm telling you, you did what you believed you had to do through all of this. Not what was easiest or best for you. You did what you did, and you're owning it. And I don't know ten men who would be brave enough to do that.”
“I am happy to exhibit, but not to put myself on exhibition.”

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