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A Baboon In A Forest Is A Matter Of Legitimate Speculation; A Baboon In A Zoo Is An Object Of Public Curiosity; But A Baboon In Your Wife’s Bed Is A Cause Of The Gravest Concern.

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A Baboon In A Forest Is A Matter Of Legitimate Speculation; A Baboon In A Zoo Is An Object Of Public Curiosity; But A Baboon In Your Wife’s Bed Is A Cause Of The Gravest Concern.

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When Told By A Helpful Aide That His Flies Were Undone He Replied 'young Man, There Is No Harm In Leaving The Cage Door Open If The Bird Is Dead!

When You Get A Thing The Way You Want It, Leave It Alone.

I Will Begin By Saying What Everybody Would Like To Ignore Or Forget... We Have Sustained A Total And Unmitigated Defeat... All Is Over. Silent, Mournful, Abandoned, Broken, Czechoslovakia Recedes Into The Darkness... We Are In The Presence Of A Disaster Of The First Magnitude Which Has Befallen Great Britain And France. Do Not Let Us Blind Ourselves To That... Do Not Suppose That This Is The End. This Is Only The Beginning Of The Reckoning.

No One Can Understand History Without Continually Relating The Long Periods Which Are Constantly Mentioned To The Experiences Of Our Own Short Lives.

Things Don't Happen To Me. I Happen To Things!

This Truth May Be Unfashionable, Unpalatable, No Doubt Unpopular, But, If It Is The Truth, The Story Of Mankind Shows That War Was Universal And Unceasing For Millions Of Years Before Armaments Were Invented Or Armies Organized. Indeed, The Lucid Intervals Of Peace And Order Only Occurred In Human History After Armaments In The Hands Of Strong Governments Have Come Into Being, And Civilization In Every Age Has Been Nursed Only In Cradles Guarded By Superior Weapons And Superior Discipline.

It Is Better To Do The Wrong Thing That To Do Nothing.

In War As In Life, It Is Often Necessary When Some Cherished Scheme Has Failed, To Take Up The Best Alternative Open, And If So, It Is Folly Not To Work For It With All Your Might.

War Is Horrible, But Slavery Is Worse.

An Optimist Sees The Oportunity In Every Difficulty.

Diplomacy Is The Art Of Telling People To Go To Hell In Such A Way That They Ask For Directions.

We Shape Our Buildings; Thereafter They Shape Us.

Nothing Is More Dangerous In Wartime Than To Live In The Temperamental Atmosphere Of A Gallup Poll, Always Feeling Ones Pulse And Taking Ones Temperature. I See That A Speaker At The Week-end Said That This Was A Time When Leaders Should Keep Their Ears To The Ground. All I Can Say Is That The British Nation Will Find It Very Hard To Look Up To Leaders Who Are Detected In That Somewhat Ungainly Posture.

However Beautiful The Strategy, You Should Occasionally Look At The Results.

The Man Who Can Master His Time Can Master Nearly Anything.

A Love For Tradition Has Never Weakened A Nation, Indeed It Has Strengthened Nations In Their Hour Of Peril.

What Kind Of People Do They Think We Are? Is It Possible They Do Not Realize That We Shall Never Cease To Persevere Against Them Until They Have Been Taught A Lesson Which They And The World Will Never Forget?

The Reason For Having Diplomatic Relations Is Not To Confer A Compliment, But To Secure A Convenience. [on Diplomatic Recognition Of The People's Republic Of China]

Diplomatic Relations

Everything Trends Towards Catastrophe & Collapse. I Am Interested, Geared Up & Happy. Is It Not Horrible To Be Built Like That?

The Only Thing That Ever Really Frightened Me During The War Was The U-boat Peril.

There Must Not Be Lacking In Our Leadership Something Of That Spirit Of The Austrian Corporal Who, When All Had Fallen Into Ruins Around Him, And When Germany Seemed To Have Fallen Into Chaos, Did Not Hesitate To March Forth Against The Vast Army Of Victorious Nations And Has Already Turned The Tables Decisively Against Them.

My Ability To Persuade My Wife To Marry Me Was Quite My Most Brilliant Achievement ... Of Course, It Would Have Been Impossible For Any Ordinary Man To Have Got Through What I Had To Go Through In Peace And War Without The Devoted Aid Of What We Call, In England, One's Better Half.

No Hour Of Life Is Wasted That Is Spent In The Saddle.

If You Put Two Economists Xin A Room, You Get Two Opinions, Unless One Of Them Is Lord Keynes, In Which Case You Get Three Opinions.

Victory Is Not Final. Defeat Is Not Failure. It's All About Courage.

Don't Be Content To Be The Chip Off The Old Block - Be The Old Block Itself.

This Is A War Of The Unknown Warriors; But Let All Strive Without Failing In Faith Or In Duty, And The Dark Curse Of Hitler Will Be Lifted From Our Age.

The English Know How To Make The Best Of Things. Their So-called Muddling Through Is Simply Skill At Dealing With The Inevitable.

The Test Of Real Character Is What A Man Does When He Is Tired.

It Is Of No Account; After All, The Old Bird Does Not Fly Far From His Nest.

No Matter. The Dead Bird Does Not Leave The Nest.

Danger Gathers Upon Our Path. We Cannot Afford - We Have No Right - To Look Back. We Must Look Forward... The Stronger The Advocate Of Monarchical Principle A Man May Be, The More Zealously He Must Now Endeavor To Fortify The Throne And To Give To His Majesty's Successor That Strength Which Can Only Come From The Love Of A United Nation And Empire.

It Was Evident However That The Lawyers Would Have To Have Their Say....this Also Opened Up A Vista Both Lengthy And Obscure.

Those Good At War Aren't Good At Peace, And Those Good At Peace Aren't Good At War.

No Matter How Enmeshed A Commander Becomes In The Elaboration Of His Own Thoughts, It Is Sometimes Necessary To Take The Enemy Into Account.

"mr. Churchill You're Drunk!" Mr. Churchill: "and You, Lady Astor, Are Ugly. As For My Condition, It Will Pass By The Morning. You, However, Will Still Be Ugly.

A Small Lie Needs A Bodyguard Of Bigger Lies To Protect It.

The Times Is Speechless, And Takes Three Columns To Express Its Speechlessness.

Churchill: "madam, Would You Sleep With Me For Five Million Pounds?" Socialite: "my Goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I Suppose... We Would Have To Discuss Terms, Of Course... " Churchill: "would You Sleep With Me For Five Pounds?" Socialite: "mr. Churchill, What Kind Of Woman Do You Think I Am?!" Churchill: "madam, We've Already Established That. Now We Are Haggling About The Price

Churchill Says The Government Had To Choose Between War And Shame. They Chose Shame. They Will Get War, Too.

It Is A Good Thing To Stand Away From The Canvas From Time To Time And Take A Full View Of The Picture.

Life Can Either Be Accepted Or Changed. If It Is Not Accepted, It Must Be Changed. If It Cannot Be Changed, Then It Must Be Accepted.

When We Run Out Of Money, We Have To Start Thinking.

You Can Always Rely On America To Do The Right Thing -- Once It Has Exhausted The Alternatives.

Working Hours Are Never Long Enough. Each Day Is A Holiday, And Ordinary Holidays Are Grudged As Enforced Interruptions In An Absorbing Vocation.

It Has Been Said That Democracy Is The Worst Form Of Government Except All The Others That Have Been Tried.

Writing A Book Is An Adventure.

It Is Remarkable That Lord Esher Should Be So Much Astray...we Must Conclude That An Uncontrollable Fondness For Fiction Forbade Him To Forsake It For Fact. Such Constancy Is A Defect In An Historian.

Immense Deposits Of Kimmeridge Clay, Containing The Oil-bearing Bands Or Seams, Stretch Across England From Dorsetshire To Lincolnshire. [an Early Political Recognition Of The Native Resource. The Geological Survey Had Identified The Inflammable Oil Shale In Reports Since At Least 1888.]

To Sit At One's Table On A Sunny Morning, With Four Clear Hours Of Uninterruptible Security, Plenty Of Nice White Paper, And A Squeezer Pen - That Is True Happiness.

Un Pesimista Ve La Dificultad En Cada Oportunidad; Un Optimista Ve Una Oportunidad En Cada Dificultad

If You Don't Take Change By The Hand, It Will Take You By The Throat.

I Do Not Resent Criticism, Even When For The Sake Of Emphasis; It Parts For The Time With Reality.

Thus I Got Into My Bones The Essential Structure Of The Ordinary British Sentence, Which Is A Noble Thing.

Hatred Plays The Same Part In Government As Acid In Chemistry.

...the Schemes Of The International Jews. The Adherents Of This Sinister Confederacy Are Mostly Men Reared Up Among The Unhappy Populations Of Countries Where Jews Are Persecuted On Account Of Their Race... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilisation... This Band Of Extraordinary Personalities From The Underworld Of The Great Cities Of Europe And America Have Gripped The Russian People By The Hair Of Their Heads And Have Become Practically The Undisputed Masters Of That Enormous Empire.

The Future Is Unknowable, But The Past Should Give Us Hope.

I Know Of No Case Where A Man Added To His Dignity By Standing On It.

I Was Not The Lion, But It Fell To Me To Give The Lion's Roar.

Solitary Trees, If They Grow At All, Grow Strong.

By Being So Long In The Lowest Form [at Harrow] I Gained An Immense Advantage Over The Cleverer Boys. . . . I Got Into My Bones The Essential Structure Of The Ordinary British Sentence - Which Is A Noble Thing. Naturally I Am Biased In Favor Of Boys Learning English; I Would Make Them All Learn English: And Then I Would Let The Clever Ones Learn Latin As An Honor, And Greek As A Treat.

If You're Going To Walk Through Hell, Keep Going.

Our Dog Chases People On A Bike. We've Had To Take It Off Him.

If The Present Tries To Sit In Judgment Of The Past, It Will Lose The Future.

Beware Of Driving Men To Desperation. Even A Cornered Rat Is Dangerous.

I Am A Child Of The House Of Commons. I Was Brought Up In My Fathers House To Believe In Democracy. Trust The Peoplethat Was His Message.

One Can Usually Put One's Thoughts Better In One's Own Words.

... Painting A Picture Is Like Fighting A Battle; And Trying To Paint A Picture Is, I Suppose, Like Trying To Fight A Battle. It Is, If Anything, More Exciting Than Fighting It Successfully. But The Principle Is The Same.

It Is Sheer Laziness Not Compressing Thought Into A Reasonable Space.

Apt Analogies Are Among The Most Formidable Weapons Of The Rhetorician.

... I Think It Would Be So Much Better For Me To Learn Something Which Would Be Useful To Me In The Army, As Well As Affording Me Exercise And Amusement.

I Had A Feeling Once About Mathematics - That I Saw It All... But It Was After Dinner And I Let It Go.

'keep England White' Is A Good Slogan.

There Is No Finer Investment For Any Community Than Putting Milk Into Babies.

The Battle Of France Is Over. The Battle Of Britain Is About To Begin. Upon This Battle Depends The Future Of Christian Civilisation.

My Conclusion On Freewill And Predestination- They Are Identical.

Are You Insinuating That I Am A Purveyor Of Terminological Inexactitudes?

Here Churchill Repeats With Approval A Statement He Had First Made In January, 1930 "at A Meeting At The Cannon Street Hotel." "sooner Or Later You Will Have To Crush Gandhi And The Indian Congress And All They Stand For."

We See Nothing But Good And Hope In A Richer, Freer, More Contented European Commonalty. But We Have Our Own Dreams And Our Own Task. We Are With Europe, But Not Of It. We Are Linked, But Not Comprised. We Are Interested And Associated, But Not Absorbed.

Politics Is Like Waking Up In The Morning. You Never Know Whose Head You'll Find On The Pillow.

There Is No Need To Exaggerate The Part Played In The Creation Of The Bolshevism And In The Actual Bringing About Of The Russian Revolution, By These International And For The Most Part Atheistical Jews.

Here Life Itself, Life At Its Best And Healthiest, Awaits The Caprice Of The Bullet. Let Us See The Development Of The Day. All Else May Stand Over, Perhaps For Ever. Existence Is Never So Sweet As When It Is At Hazard.

Americans Are A Wonderful People: They Will Always Do The Right Thing--after Exhausting Every Other Possible Alternative.

Never Run Away From Anything. Never!

Double Standard

Baldwin Often Times Stumbles Over The Truth, But He Always Picks Himself Up And Hurries On As If Nothing Had Happened.

When One Is In Office One Has No Idea How Damnable Things Can Feel To The Ordinary Rank And File Of The Public.

The Great Defence Against Aerial Menace Is To Attack The Enemy's Aircraft As Near As Possible To Their Point Of Departure.

Sure I Am This Day We Are Masters Of Our Fate, That The Task Which Has Been Set Before Us Is Not Above Our Strength; That Its Pangs And Toils Are Not Beyond Our Endurance. As Long As We Have Faith In Our Own Cause And An Unconquerable Will To Win, Victory Will Not Be Denied Us.

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.

Success In Life Is The Ability To Move From One Mistake To Another Without Loosing Enthusiasm.

There Is No Greater Mistake Than To Suppose That Platitudes, Smooth Words, Timid Policies, Offer Today A Path To Safety.

When I Get To Heaven I Mean To Spend A Considerable Portion Of My First Million Years In Painting, And So Get To The Bottom Of The Subject.

Difficulties Mastered Are Opportunities Won.

I Neither Want It [brandy] Nor Need It, But I Should Think It Pretty Hazardous To Interfere With The Ineradicable Habit Of A Lifetime.

Don't Give Your Sons Money. Give Them Horses. Many A Good Son Has Been Ruined Through The Acquisition Of Money But No Good Son Has Been Ruined Through The Acquisition Of Horses. Unless They Fell And Broke Their Neck, Which When Taken At The Gallop Is A Very Good Death To Die.

This Is No War Of Chieftains Or Of Princes, Of Dynasties Or National Ambition; It Is A War Of Peoples And Of Causes. There Are Vast Numbers, Not Only In This Island But In Every Land, Who Will Render Faithful Service In This War, But Whose Names Will Never Be Known, Whose Deeds Will Never Be Recorded. This Is A War Of The Unknown Warriors

Science Bestowed Immense New Powers On Man, And At The Same Time, Created Conditions Which Were Largely Beyond His Comprehension.

Advertising Nourishes The Consuming Power Of Men.

It Is Not Given To Princes, Statesmen And Captains To Pierce The Mysteries Of The Future, And Even The Most Penetrating Gaze Reaches Only Conclusions Which, However Seemingly Vindicated At A Given Moment, Are Inexorably Effaced By Time.

I Have Had To Eat My Own Words Many Times, And I Have Found It A Very Nourishing Diet.

Fancy Living In One Of These Streets, Never Seeing Anything Beautiful, Never Eating Anything Savoury, Never Saying Anything Clever!

I'm Just Preparing My Impromptu Remarks.

It Is Hard, If Not Impossible, To Snub A Beautiful Woman - They Remain Beautiful And The Snub Recoils.

Our Inheritance Of Well-founded, Slowly Conceived Codes Of Honor, Morals And Manners, The Passionate Convictions Which So Many Hundreds Of Millions Share Together Of The Principles Of Freedom And Justice, Are Far More Precious To Us Than Anything Which Scientific Discoveries Could Bestow.

The American Constitution Declares 'all Men Are Born Equal.' The British Socialist Party Add: 'all Men Must Be Kept Equal'.

Nowadays We Are Assailed By A Chorus Of Horrid Threats. The Nazi Government Exudes Through Every Neutral State Inside Information Of The Frightful Vengeance They Are Going To Wreak Upon Us, And They Also Bawl It Around The World By Their Leather-lunged Propaganda Machine. If Words Could Kill, We Should Be Dead Already.

The Game Of Life Does Not Proceed Like A Mathematical Calculation On The Principle That Two And Two Make Four. Sometimes They Make Five, Or Minus Four, And Sometimes The Blackboard Topples Over In The Middle Of The Sum And The Pedagogue Is Left With A Black Eye.

Of All The Branches Of Men In The Forces There Is None Which Shows More Devotion And Faces Grimmer Perils Than The Submariners.

I Am Convinced That There Is No Smarter, Handier, Or More Adaptable Body Of Troops In The World.

This Is No Time For Ease And Comfort. It Is Time To Dare And Endure.

The Cultivation Of A Hobby And New Forms Of Interest Is A Policy Of First Importance To A Public Man.

I No Longer Listen To What People Say, I Just Watch What They Do. Behavior Never Lies.

No Lover Ever Studied Every Whim Of His Mistress As I Did Those Of President Roosevelt.

The Story Of The Human Race Is War. Except For Brief And Precarious Interludes There Has Never Been Peace In The World; And Long Before History Began Murderous Strife Was Universal And Unending.

The Difference Between Mere Management And Leadership Is Communication.

If You Simply Take Up The Attitude Of Defending A Mistake, There Will No Hope Of Improvement.

The Maxim, "nothing Prevails But Perfection," May Be Spelled Paralysis.

War, Which Used To Be Cruel And Magnificent Has Now Become Cruel And Squalid.

We Are Stripped Bare By The Curse Of Plenty.

There Is No Surer Method Of Economizing And Saving Money Than In The Reduction Of The Number Of Officials.

In Franklin Roosevelt There Died The Greatest American Friend We Have Ever Known - And The Greatest Champion Of Freedom Who Has Ever Brought Help And Comfort From The New World To The Old.

Attitude Is A Little Thing That Makes A Big Difference.

Some Men Change Their Party For The Sake Of Their Principles; Others Their Principles For The Sake Of Their Party

Eating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion.

You May Have To Fight When There Is No Hope Of Victory, Because It Is Better To Perish Than Live As Slaves.

Odds Against You

Men Occasionally Stumble Over The Truth, But Most Of Them Pick Themselves Up And Hurry Off As If Nothing Had Happened.

We Are Waiting For The Long-promised Invasion. So Are The Fishes.

Time Passes Swiftly, But Is It Not Joyous To See How Great And Growing Is The Treasure We Have Gathered Together, Amid The Storms And Stresses Of So Many Eventful And To Millions Tragic And Terrible Years?

You Never Can Tell Whether Bad Luck May Not After All Turn Out To Be Good Luck.

Hasty Work And Premature Decisions May Lead To Penalties Out Of All Proportion To The Issues Immediately Involved.

I Always Seem To Get Inspiration And Renewed Vitality By Contact With This Great Novel Land Of Yours Which Sticks Up Out Of The Atlantic.

Let The Children Have Their Night Of Fun And Laughter, Let The Gifts Of Father Christmas Delight Their Play. Let Us Grown-ups Share To The Full In Their Unstinted Pleasures.

The World Today Is Ruled By Harassed Politicians Absorbed In Getting Into Office Or Turning Out The Other Man So That Not Much Room Is Left For Debating The Great Issues On Their Merits

They [the Labour Party] Are Not Fit To Manage A Whelk Stall.

When You Feel You Cannot Continue In Your Position For Another Minute, And All That Is In Human Power Has Been Done, That Is The Moment When The Enemy Is Most Exhausted, And When One Step Forward Will Give You The Fruits Of The Struggle You Have Borne

Fear Is A Reaction. Courage Is A Decision.

The Positive Thinker Sees The Invisible, Feels The Intangible, And Achieves The Impossible.

The Greatest Advances In Human Civilization Have Come When We Recovered What We Had Lost: When We Learned The Lessons Of History.

It Is One Thing To See The Forward Path And Another To Be Able To Take It. But It Is Better To Have An Ambitious Plan Than None At All.

Wealth, Taste And Leisure Can Bring Many Things But They Do Not Bring Happiness.

In Critical And Baffling Situations, It Is Always Best To Return To First Principle And Simple Action

Your Greatest Fears Are Created By Your Imagination. Don't Give In To Them.

The Gift Of A Common Tongue Is A Priceless Inheritance And It May Well Some Day Become The Foundation Of A Common Citizenship.

More Than 80 Per Cent Of The British Casualties Of The Great War Were English. More Than 80 Per Cent Of The Taxation Is Paid By The English Taxpayers. We Are Entitled To Mention These Facts, And To Draw Authority And Courage From Them.

One Would Have Thought That If There Was One Cause In The World Which The Conservative Party Would Have Hastened To Defend, It Would Be The Cause Of The British Empire In India ... Our Fight Is Hard. It Will Also Be Long ... But Win Or Lose, We Must Do Our Duty. If The British People Are To Lose Their Indian Empire, They Shall Do So With Their Eyes Open.

The Almighty In His Infinite Wisdom Did Not See Fit To Create Frenchmen In The Image Of Englishmen.

I Have Never Developed Indigestion From Eating My Words.

For The First Time I Heard Shots Fired In Anger, Heard Bullets Strike Flesh Or Whistle Through The Air.

There Is No Merit In Putting Off A War For A Year If, When It Comes, It Is Far Worse Or Much Harder To Win.

A Gentleman Is A Man Who Is Only Rude When He Intends To Be.

I Cannot But Think We Have Much To Be Thankful For, And More Still To Hope For In The Future.

It Is Not Alone That Property, In All Its Forms, Is Struck At, But That Liberty, In All Its Forms, Is Challenged By The Fundamental Conceptions Of Socialism.

It Is Impossible To Obtain A Conviction For Sodomy From An English Jury. Half Of Them Don't Believe That It Can Physically Be Done, And The Other Half Are Doing It.

Now That We Are, As You Say, 'in The Same Boat,' Would It Not Be Wise For Us To Have Another Conference ... And The Sooner The Better.

You Haven't Learned Life's Lesson Very Well If You Haven't Noticed That You Can Give The Tone Or Colour, Or Decide The Reaction You Want Of People In Advance. It's Unbelievable Simply. If You Want Them To Take An Interest In You, Take An Interest In Them First. If You Want To Make Them Nervous, Become Nervous Yourself...it's As Simple As That. People Will Treat You As You Treat Them. It's No Secret. Look About You. You Can Prove It With The Next Person You Meet.

We Must Build A Kind Of United States Of Europe.

We Are Really Doing Our Very Best. There Are No Doubt Many Mistakes And Shortcomings. A Lot Of Things Are Done None Too Well. Some Things That Ought To Be Done Have Not Yet Been Done...[but Britain's Effort Has] Justly Commanded The Wonder And Admiration Of Every Friendly Nation In The World.

I Do Not Understand This Squeamishness About The Use Of Gas. We Have Definitely Adopted The Position At The Peace Conference Of Arguing In Favour Of The Retention Of Gas As A Permanent Method Of Warfare. It Is Sheer Affectation To Lacerate A Man With The Poisonous Fragment Of A Bursting Shell And To Boggle At Making His Eyes Water By Means Of Lachrymatory Gas.

I Cannot Help Reflecting That If My Father Had Been American And My Mother British Instead Of The Other Way Around, I Might Have Gotten Here On My Own.

Nothing Makes A Man More Reverent Than A Library.

I Am Strongly In Favour Of Using Poisoned Gas Against Uncivilised Tribes.

If You Want Me To Speak For Two Minutes, It Will Take Me Three Weeks Of Preparation. If You Want Me To Speak For Thirty Minutes, It Will Take Me A Week To Prepare. If You Want Me To Speak For An Hour, I Am Ready Now.

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.

Watch Your Habits, They Determine Your Character.

I Think It Is The Most Important Subject Facing This Country, But I Cannot Get Any Of My Ministers To Take Any Notice.

Don't Mind The Five Or More Million Germans. Stalin Will See To Them They Will Cease To Exist.

Everybody Has Always Underrated The Russians. They Keep Their Own Secrets Alike From Foe And Friends.

[much] As War Attracts Me And Fascinates My Mind With Its Tremendous Situations, I Feel More Deeply Every Year . . . What Vile And Wicked Folly And Barbarism It All Is.

Without Victory There Is No Survival!

I Am Not Invested With Dictatorial Powers. If I Were, I Should Be Quite Ready To Dictate.

When There Is No Enemy Within, The Enemies Outside Cannot Hurt You.

Nature Has Not Intended Mankind To Work From Eight In The Morning Until Midnight Without That Refreshment Of Blessed Oblivion Which, Even If It Only Lasts Twenty Minutes, Is Sufficient To Renew All The Vital Forces.

Good And Great Are Seldom In The Same Man.

All Dogs Look Up To You. All Cats Look Down On You. Only The Pig Looks At You As An Equal

The Only Guide To A Man's Conscience, The Only Shield To His Memory Is The Rectitude And Sincerity Of His Actions.

Politics Is Almost As Exciting As War, And Quite As Dangerous. In War You Can Only Be Killed Once, But In Politics Many Times.

A Heightened Sense Of The Observation Of Nature Is One Of The Chief Delights That Have Come To Me Through Trying To Paint.

Watch Your Character For Your Character Is Your Destiny.

Those Who Can Win A War Well Can Rarely Make A Good Peace And Those Who Could Make A Good Peace Would Never Have Won The War.

If You're Not A Liberal At Twenty You Have No Heart, If You're Not A Conservative At Forty, You Have No Brain.

No Two On Earth In All Things Can Agree. All Have Some Daring Singularity.

I Myself Find Waiting More Tiring Than Action.

Saving Is A Fine Thing. Especially When Your Parents Have Done It For You.

Before Alamein We Never Had A Victory. After Alamein We Never Had A Defeat.

Democracy Is The Best Form Of The Worst Type Of Government

Bessie Braddock: "winston, You're Drunk. Churchill: "bessie, You're Ugly. But Tomorrow I Shall Be Sober.

I Get My Exercise Being A Pallbearer For Those Of My Friends Who Believed In Regular Running And Calisthenics.

I Hate Nobody Except Hitler--and That Is Professional.

Victory At All Costs, Victory In Spite Of All Terror, Victory However Long And Hard The Road May Be; For Without Victory, There Is No Survival.

Greatest Victory

Men Often Stumble Onto The Truth But Then Quickly Dust Themselves Off And Hurry Away.

The United States Is Like A Gigantic Boiler. Once The Fire Is Lit Under It, There's No Limit To The Power It Can Generate.

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.'

Please Put The Ladybug Outside Without Harming Her. (to His Butler)

The Most Formidable People In The World, And Now The Most Dangerous, People Who... Lay Down The Doctrine That Every Frontier Must Be The Starting Out Point For Invasion.

With Integrity, Nothing Else Counts. Without Integrity, Nothing Else Counts.

You Have Enemies? Good. That Means You've Stood Up For Something, Sometime In Your Life.

Some People Regard Private Enterprise As A Predatory Tiger To Be Shot. Others Look On It As A Cow They Can Milk. Not Enough People See It As A Healthy Horse, Pulling A Sturdy Wagon.

I Have Consistently Urged My Friends To Abstain From Reading It.

I Do Not Understand This Squeamishness About The Use Of Gas... I Am Strongly In Favour Of Using Poisoned Gas Against Uncivilised Tribes... It Is Not Necessary To Use Only The Most Deadly Gases: Gases Can Be Used Which Cause Great Inconvenience And Would Spread A Lively Terror And Yet Would Leave No Serious Permanent Effects On Most Of Those Affected.

The Old Wars Were Decided By Their Episodes Rather Than By Their Tendencies. In This War, The Tendencies Are Far More Important Than The Episodes.

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