N47 : Forty-seventh lesson S00-TITLE : Oratory S01 : If my opponent is re-elected as Prime Minister on Thursday, I warn you. S02 : I warn you that you will have pain - when healing and relief depend upon payment. S03 : I warn you that you will have ignorance - when talents are untended and wits are wasted. S04 : I warn you that you will have poverty - when benefits are whittled away by a government that won't pay in an economy that can't pay. S05 : I warn you that you will be cold - when fuel charges are used as a tax system that the rich don't notice and the poor can't afford. S06 : I warn you that you must not expect work - when many cannot spend, more will not be able to earn. S07 : When they don't earn, they don't spend. When they don't spend, work dies. S08 : I warn you not to go into the streets alone after dark or into the streets in large crowds of protest in the light. S09 : I warn you that you will be quiet - when the curfew of fear and the gibbet of unemployment make you obedient. S10 : I warn you that you will be home-bound - when fares and transport bills kill leisure and lock you up. S11 : I warn you that you will borrow less - when credit, loans, mortgages and easy payments are refused to people on your melting income. S12 : If my opponent wins on Thursday, I warn you not to be ordinary. I warn you not to be young. S13 : I warn you not to fall ill. I warn you not to get old. S14 : Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, S15 : or that anyone who embarks on that strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. S16 : The Statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy S17 : but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events. S18 : Weak, incompetent or arrogant commanders, untrustworthy allies, hostile neutrals, malignant fortune, ugly surprises, awful miscalculations: S19 : all take their seat at the Council Board on the morrow of a declaration of war. S20 : Always remember, however sure you are that you can easily win, S21 : that there would not be a war if the other man did not think that he also had a chance. T00-TRANSLATE : Exercise: Translate T01 : She hasn't heard from her son for a month and she's at her wits' end. T02 : I finally yielded to reason and gave up skiing. T03 : However you choose to contact them, they'll give you a quick response. T04 : I can't pay and I won't pay! I'm on sickness benefit. T05 : When will you get back to me? When I have the information.