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A Study Of Disease-of Pestilences Methodically Prepared And Deliberately Launched Upon Man And Beast-is Certainly Being Pursue In The Laboratories Of More Than One Great Country. Blight To Destroy Crops, Anthrax To Slay Horses And Cattle, Plague To Poison Not Armies But Whole Districts - Such Are The Lines Along Which Military Science Is Remorselessly Advancing.

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Winston Churchill

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A Study Of Disease-of Pestilences Methodically Prepared And Deliberately Launched Upon Man And Beast-is Certainly Being Pursue In The Laboratories Of More Than One Great Country. Blight To Destroy Crops, Anthrax To Slay Horses And Cattle, Plague To Poison Not Armies But Whole Districts - Such Are The Lines Along Which Military Science Is Remorselessly Advancing.

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The Test Of A People Is What They Can Do When They're Tired.

Well, Dinner Would Have Been Splendid... If The Wine Had Been As Cold As The Soup, The Beef As Rare As The Service, The Brandy As Old As The Fish, And The Maid As Willing As The Duchess.

Fear Is A Reaction. Courage Is A Decision.

Battles Are Won By Slaughter And Maneuver. The Greater The General, The More He Contributes In Maneuver, The Less He Demands In Slaughter.

One Day President Roosevelt Told Me That He Was Asking Publicly For Suggestions About What The War Should Be Called. I Said At Once 'the Unnecessary War'.

The British Nation Is Unique In This Respect. They Are The Only People Who Like To Be Told How Bad Things Are, Who Like To Be Told The Worst.

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

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

If I Had Been An Italian I Am Sure That I Should Have Been Whole-heartedly With You From The Start To Finish In Your Triumphant Struggle Against The Bestial Appetites And Passions Of Leninism.

Painting A Picture Is Like Trying To Fight A Battle.

A Nation Which Has Forgotten Its Past Can Have No Future.

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

Democracy Is The Best Form Of The Worst Type Of Government

A Communist Is Like A Crocodile: When It Opens Its Mouth You Cannot Tell Whether It Is Trying To Smile Or Preparing To Eat You Up.

And A Pamphlet Called Pick Me Up There Is No Genuine Hatred Against Herr Hitler.

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

Writing A Long And Substantial Book Is Like Having A Friend And Companion At Your Side, To Whom You Can Always Turn For Comfort And Amusement, And Whose Society Becomes More Attractive As A New And Widening Field Of Interest Is Lighted In The Mind.

At The Beginning Of This War Megalomania Was The Only Form Of Sanity.

How Many Have Gone? How Many More To Go? The Admiralty Is Fast Asleep And Lethargy & Inertia Are The Order Of The Day. However Everybody Seems Delighted - So There Is Nothing To Be Said. No Plans, No Enterprise, No Struggle To Aid The General Cause. Just Sit Still On The Spacious Throne And Snooze.

The People Of Asia Were Slaves, Because They Had Not Learned How To Pronounce The Word 'no'.

It Is Not Open To The Cool Bystander . . . To Set Himself Up As An Impartial Judge Of Events Which Would Never Have Occurred Had He Outstretched A Helping Hand In Time.

Democracy Means That When There's A Knock In The Door At 3 Am, It's Probably The Milkman.

It Is My Belief, You Cannot Deal With The Most Serious Things In The World Unless You Understand The Most Amusing.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

Victory And Defeat

Show Me A Young Conservative And I'll Show You Someone With No Heart. Show Me An Old Liberal And I'll Show You Someone With No Brains.

I Don't Like Standing Near The Edge Of A Platform When An Express Train Is Passing Through. I Like To Stand Right Back And If Possible Get A Pillar Between Me And The Train. I Don't Like To Stand By The Side Of A Ship And Look Down Into The Water. A Second's Action Would End Everything. A Few Drops Of Desperation.

Nourish Your Hopes, But Do Not Overlook Realities.

We Shall Not Fail Or Falter; We Shall Not Weaken Or Tire. Neither The Sudden Shock Of Battle, Nor The Long-drawn Trials Of Vigilance And Exertion Will Wear Us Down. Give Us The Tools And We Will Finish The Job.

Hope Has Returned To The Hearts Of Scores Of Millions Of Men And Women, And With That Hope There Burns The Flame Of Anger Against The Brutal, Corrupt Invader ... In A Dozen Famous Ancient States Now Prostrate Under The Nazi Yoke, The Masses Of The People ... Await The Hour Of Liberation ... That Hour Will Strike, And Its Solemn Peal Will Proclaim That The Night Is Past And That The Dawn Has Come.

This Beginning With Audacity, Or Being Thrown Into The Middle Of It, Is Already A Very Great Part Of The Art Of Painting.

Watch Your Actions, They Become Your Habits.

Never Give In Except To Convictions Of Honour And Good Sense. Never Yield To Force; Never Yield To The Apparently Overwhelming Might Of The Enemy.

Safety And Certainty In Oil Lie In Variety, And Variety Alone.

It May Be That ... When The Advance Of Destructive Weapons Enables Everyone To Kill Everybody Else Nobody Will Want To Kill Anyone At All. [referring To The Hydrogen Bomb.]

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

Don't Talk To Me About Naval Tradition. It's Nothing But Rum, Sodomy, And The Lash.

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

A Man Must Choose His Own Way Of Life, And…it Is Only By Following Out One’s Own Bent That There Can Be The Really Harmonious Life.” [in An Interview Conducted By Bram Stoker]

Just As The Sentence Contains One Idea In All Its Fullness, So The Paragraph Should Embrace A Distinct Episode; And As Sentences Should Follow One Another In Harmonious Sequence, So Paragraphs Must Fit Into Another Like The Automatic Couplings Of Railway Carriages.

Expert Knowledge Is Limited Knowledge

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I'd Rather Argue Against A Hundred Idiots, Than Have One Agree With Me.

The Best Argument Against Democracy Is A Five-minute Conversation With The Average Voter.

The Statesman Who Yields To War Fever Must Realise That Once The Signal Is Given, He Is No Longer The Master Of Policy But The Slave Of Unforeseeable And Uncontrollable Events.

What Is The Use Of Living, If It Be Not To Strive For Noble Causes And To Make This Muddled World A Better Place For Those Who Will Live In It After We Are Gone?

Unpunctuality Is A Vile Habit.

There Is No Worse Mistake In Public Leadership Than To Hold Out False Hope Soon To Be Swept Away.

Victory Is The Beautiful, Bright-colored Flower. Transport Is The Stem Without Which It Could Never Have Blossomed.

Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste

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'keep England White' Is A Good Slogan.

I Am Quite Sure, That If We Open A Quarrel Between The Past And The Present, We Shall Find That We Have Lost The Future.

The United States Stands At The Pinnacle Of World Power. This Is A Solemn Moment For The American Democracy. For With Primacy In Power Is Joined An Awe-inspiring Accountability For The Future.

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Nothing Is Won Without Enthusiasm.

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It Was My Ambition All Of My Life To Be Master Of The Spoken Word.

If You Wanted Nothing Done At All, Balfour Was The Man For The Job.

There Is In The Act Of Preparing, The Moment You Start Caring.

All I Want Is Compliance With My Wishes, After Reasonable Discussion.

Anyone Can Rat, But It Takes A Certain Amount Of Ingenuity To Re-rat.

Everyone Has A Right To Pronounce Foreign Names As He Chooses.

Russian May Seem Narrow-minded, Impudent, Or Even Stupid People, But Can Only Pray For Those Who Are Against Them.

I Do Not Apologize For The Takeover Of The Region By The Jews From The Palestinians In The Same Way I Don't Apologize For The Takeover Of America By The Whites From The Red Indians Or The Takeover Of Australia From The Blacks. It Is Natural For A Superior Race To Dominate An Inferior One.

He Looks Like A Female Llama Who Has Been Surprised In The Bath.

A Good Party Man Puts His Party Above Himself And His Country Above His Party.

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Lobbyists Are The Touts Of Protected Industries.

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

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I Am Too Busy. I Have Not Time For Worry.

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I Do Not Hold That We Should Rearm In Order To Fight. I Hold That We Should Rearm In Order To Parley.

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When I Look Back On All These Worries, I Remember The Story Of The Old Man Who Said On His Deathbed That He Had Had A Lot Of Trouble In His Life, Most Of Which Had Never Happened

Funny Inspirational

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

It Would Be A Great Reform In Politics If Perception Could Be Made To Spread As Easily And As Rapidly As Foolishness.

I Do Not Believe There Is The Slightest Chance Of War With Japan In Our Lifetime. The Japanese Are Our Allies.... Japan Is At The Other End Of The World. She Cannot Menace Our Vital Security In Any Way.... War With Japan Is Not A Possibility Which Any Reasonable Government Need Take Into Account.

Make For The Children An Evening Of Happiness In A World Of Storm. Let The Children Have Their Night Of Fun And Laughter... Resolved That By Our Daring, These Same Children Shall Not Be Denied Their Right To Live In A Free And Decent World.

Building Slow Destroyers ! One Might As Well Breed Slow Race Horses.

Nobody Wants To Intervene In Russian Affairs. Russia Is A Very Large Country, A Very Old Country, A Very Disagreeable Country Inhabited By Immense Numbers Of Ignorant People Largely Possessed Of Lethal Weapons And In A State Of Extreme Disorder. Also Russia Is A Long Way Off.

Preposition: An Enormously Versatile Part Of Grammar, As In 'what Made You Pick This Book I Didn't Want To Be Read To Out Of Up For?'

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

"i Hope, Sir, That I Will Shoot Your Picture On Your Hundredth Birthday." I Don't See Why Not, Young Man. You Look Reasonably Fit And Healthy.

Success Is Often Nothing More Than Moving From One Failure To Another With Undiminished Enthusiasm.

It So Often Happens That, When Men Are Convinced That They Have To Die, A Desire To Bear Themselves Well And To Leave Life's Stage With Dignity Conquers All Other Sensations.

Be A Peg, Hammered Into The Frozen Ground, Immovable.

A Pessimist Sees The Difficulty In Every Opportunity; An Optimist Sees The Opportunity In Every Difficulty.

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

Do Not Criticize Your Government When Out Of The Country. Never Cease To Do So When At Home

Nothing Should Be Done For Spite's Sake.

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If You Want To Discover New Oceans, You Must First Have The Courage To Leave Shore.

We Make Our Buildings And Afterwards They Make Us. They Regulate The Course Of Our Lives.

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.

My Conclusion On Freewill And Predestination- They Are Identical.

I'm So Bored With It All.

It Is Better To Be Making The News Than Taking It, To Be An Actor Rather Than A Critic.

Positive Thinking

History Will Be Kind To Me For I Intend To Write It.

Sure I Am Of This, That You Have Only To Endure To Conquer. You Have Only To Persevere To Save Yourselves, And To Save All Those Who Rely Upon You. You Have Only To Go Right On, And At The End Of The Road, Be It Short Or Long, Victory And Honor Will Be Found.

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

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

I Hope I Shall Never See The Day When The Force Of Right Is Deprived Of The Right Of Force.

I'd Prefer To Be Right Than Consistent.

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If This Is A Blessing, It Is Certainly Very Well Disguised.

Why Should There Not Be A European Group Which Could Give A Sense Of Enlarged Patriotism And Common Citizenship To The Distracted Peoples Of This Turbulent And Mighty Continent? And Why Should It Not Take Its Rightful Place With Other Great Groupings And Help To Shape The Onward Destinies Of Men?

The Soul Of Freedom Is Deathless; It Cannot, And Will Not Perish.

Those Whose Work And Pleasure Are One... Are... Fortune's Favoured Children.

I Have Always Said That If Great Britain Were Defeated In War I Hoped We Should Find A Hitler To Lead Us Back To Our Rightful Position Among The Nations. I Am Sorry, However, That He Has Not Been Mellowed By The Great Success That Has Attended Him. The Whole World Would Rejoice To See The Hitler Of Peace And Tolerance, And Nothing Would Adorn His Name In World History So Much As Acts Of Magnanimity And Of Mercy And Of Pity To The Forlorn And Friendless, To The Weak And Poor.... Let This Great Man Search His Own Heart And Conscience Before He Accuses Anyone Of Being A Warmonger.

The Person Must Be Blind, Indeed, Who Can Not See, That Here On Earth A Great Project, A Great Plan, Is Executed, May Work On The Realization Of Which We Participate As Faithful Servants.

Faithful Servants

It Is Arguable Whether The Human Race Have Been Gainers By The March Of Science Beyond The Steam Engine. Electricity Opens A Field Of Infinite Conveniences To Ever Greater Numbers, But They May Well Have To Pay Dearly For Them. But Anyhow In My Thought I Stop Short Of The Internal Combustion Engine Which Has Made The World So Much Smaller. Still More Must We Fear The Consequences Of Entrusting A Human Race So Little Different From Their Predecessors Of The So-called Barbarous Ages Such Awful Agencies As The Atomic Bomb. Give Me The Horse.

I Do Not Presume To Explain How To Paint, But Only How To Get Enjoyment.

You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along.

Law Of Attraction

Don't Interrupt Me While I'm Interrupting.

If You Make 10,000 Regulations You Destroy All Respect For The Law.

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

For The First 25 Years Of My Life, I Wanted Freedom. For The Next 25 Years, I Wanted Order. For The Next 25 Years, I Realized That Order Is Freedom.

My Only Consolation For The Failure Of The Dardanelles Was That God Wished Things To Be Prolonged In Order To Sicken Mankind Of War, And That Therefore He Had Interfered With A Project That Would Have Brought The War To A Speedier Conclusion.

I Am Always Ready To Learn Although I Do Not Always Like Being Taught.

If The Almighty Were To Rebuild The World And Asked Me For Advice, I Would Have English Channels Round Every Country. And The Atmosphere Would Be Such That Anything Which Attempted To Fly Would Be Set On Fire.

Of All The Small Nations Of This Earth, Perhaps Only The Ancient Greeks Surpass The Scots In Their Contribution To Mankind.

Nothing Can Save England If She Will Not Save Herself. If We Lose Faith In Ourselves, In Our Capacity To Guide And Govern, If We Lose Our Will To Live, Then Indeed Our Story Is Told.

Failure Should Never Go To Heart And Success Should Never Go To Head, Both Makes A Person To Fall In Life.

The Only Traditions Of The Royal Navy Are Rum, Sodomy And The Lash.

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

The Poodle [rufus] Ate In The Dining Room With The Rest Of The [churchill] Family. A Cloth Was Laid For Him On The Persian Carpet Beside The Head Of The Household, And No One Else Ate Until The Butler Had Served Rufus's Meal.

You Ought To Let The Jews Have Jerusalem; It Is They Who Made It Famous.

The Jury System Has Come To Stand For All We Mean By English Justice. The Scrutiny Of 12 Honest Jurors Provides Defendants And Plaintiffs Alike A Safeguard From Arbitrary Perversion Of The Law.

You May Take The Most Gallant Sailor, The Most Intrepid Airman, Or The Most Audacious Soldier, Put Them At A Table Together- What Do You Get? The Sum Of Their Fears.

The Great War Differed From All Ancient Wars In The Immense Power Of The Combatants And Their Fearful Agencies Of Destruction, And From All Modern Wars In The Utter Ruthlessness With Which It Was Fought... Europe And Large Parts Of Asia And Africa Became One Vast Battlefield On Which After Years Of Struggle Not Armies But Nations Broke And Ran. When All Was Over, Torture And Cannibalism Were The Only Two Expedients That The Civilized, Scientific, Christian States Had Been Able To Deny Themselves: And They Were Of Doubtful Utility.

There Is No Working Middle Course In Wartime.

It Is Very Easy To Say That Your Opponents Have Been Guilty Of A Breach Of Faith, But It Is A Great Mistake To Splash The Paint About So Freely That Your Words Cease To Have Any Real Meaning And Cease To Carry Any Sense Of Affront Even To Those To Whom They Are Applied And Cease To Bear Any Connection With Any Genuine Feeling Of Indignation On The Part Of Those On Whose Behalf They Are Spoken.

A Day Away From Chartwell Is A Day Wasted.

Judged By Every Standard Which History Has Applied To Governments, The Soviet Government Of Russia Is One Of The Worst Tyrannies That Has Ever Existed In The World. It Accords No Political Rights. It Rules By Terror. It Punishes Political Opinions. It Suppresses Free Speech. It Tolerates No Newspapers But Its Own. It Persecutes Christianity With A Zeal And A Cunning Never Equalled Since The Times Of The Roman Emperors. It Is Engaged At This Moment In Trampling Down The Peoples Of Georgia And Executing Their Leaders By Hundreds.

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I Would Say To The House, As I Said To Those Who Have Joined This Government: I Have Nothing To Offer But Blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat.

The Lights Of Saxon England Were Going Out, And In The Gathering Darkness A Gentle, Grey-beard Prophet Foretold The End. When On His Death-bed Edward Spoke Of A Time Of Evil That Was Coming Upon The Land His Inspired Mutterings Struck Terror Into The Hearers.

I Have In My Life Concentrated More On Self-expression Than Self-denial.

If You Don't Have Any Enemies In Life You Have Never Stood Up For Anything.

How Often In Life Must One Be Content With What One Can Get!

Criticism May Not Be Agreeable, But It Is Necessary. It Fulfils The Same Function As Pain In The Human Body. It Calls Attention To An Unhealthy State Of Things.

It Is A Socialist Idea That Making Profits Is A Vice; I Consider The Real Vice Is Making Losses.

Men Will Forgive A Man Anything Except Bad Prose.

Broadly Speaking, Human Beings May Be Divided Into Three Classes: Those Who Are Billed To Death, Those Who Are Worried To Death, And Those Who Are Bored To Death.

From The Days Of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, And Ema Goldman, This World Conspiracy Has Been Steadily Growing. This Conspiracy Played A Definite Recognizable Role In The Tragedy Of The French Revolution. It Has Been The Mainspring Of Every Subversive Movement During The 19th Century. And Now At Last 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 Head And Have Become The Undisputed Masters Of That Enormous Empire.

The Greatest Lesson In Life Is To Know That Even Fools Are Right Sometimes.

When I Warned Them [the French] That Britain Would Fight On Alone Whatever They Did, Their Generals Told Their Prime Minister And His Divided Cabinet, In Three Weeks England Will Have Her Neck Wrung Like A Chicken. Some Chicken! Some Neck!

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

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

Where Does The Family Start? It Starts With A Young Man Falling In Love With A Girl - No Superior Alternative Has Yet Been Found.

I'd Rather Be Right Than Consistent.

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.

One Ought To Be Just Before One Is Generous

This Revelation Of The Secrets Of Nature, Long Mercifully Withheld From Man, Should Arouse The Most Solemn Reflections In The Mind And Conscience Of Every Human Being Capable Of Comprehension. We Must Indeed Pray That These Awful Agencies Will Be Made To Conduce To Peace Among The Nations, And That Instead Of Wreaking Measureless Havoc Upon The Entire Globe, May Become A Perennial Fountain Of World Prosperity.

I Am Reminded Of The Professor Who, In His Declining Hours, Was Asked By His Devoted Pupils For His Final Counsel. He Replied, 'verify Your Quotations.

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

In Russia A Man Is Called Reactionary If He Objects To Having His Property Stolen And His Wife And Children Murdered.

Do Not Turn The Superior Eye Of Critical Passivity Upon These Efforts .... We Must Not Be Ambitious. We Cannot Aspire To Masterpieces. We May Content Ourselves With A Joy Ride In A Paint-box.

Thus, Be Every Device From The Stick To The Carrot, The Emaciated Austrian Donkey Is Made To Pull The Nazi Barrow Up An Ever-steepening Hill.

We Would Rather See London Laid In Ruins And Ashes Than That It Should Be Tamely And Abjectly Enslaved.

Never Does A Man Portray His Character More Vividly Than When Proclaiming The Character Of Another.

Personal Initiative, Competitive Selection, The Profit Motive, Corrected By Failure And The Infinite Process Of Good Housekeeping And The Personal Ingenuity-here Constitute The Life Of A Free Society.

What Is The True And Original Root Of Dutch Aversion To British Rule? It Is The Abiding Fear And Hatred Of The Movement That Seeks To Place The Native On A Level With The White Man ... The Kaffir Is To Be Declared The Brother Of The European, To Be Constituted His Legal Equal, To Be Armed With Political Rights.

Tidiness Is A Virtue, Symmetry Is Often A Constituent Of Beauty.

No One Can Guarantee Success In War, But Only Deserve It.

Congratulations

Never Flinch, Never Weary, Never Despair.

My Mother Made A Brilliant Impression Upon My Childhood Life. She Shone For Me Like The Evening Star.

Happy Are The Painters, For They Shall Not Be Lonely.

Every Man Should Ask Himself Each Day Whether He Is Not Too Readily Accepting Negative Solutions.

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

From Stettin In The Baltic To Trieste In The Adriatic, An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across The Continent.

Little Did We Guess That What Has Been Called The Century Of The Common Man Would Witness As Its Outstanding Feature More Common Men Killing Each Other With Greater Facilities Than Any Other Five Centuries Together In The History Of The World.

A Man Is About As Big As The Things That Make Him Angry.

The Water Was Not Fit To Drink. To Make It Palatable, We Had To Add Whisky. By Diligent Effort, I Learned To Like It.

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

My Education Was Interrupted Only By My Schooling.

Now At This Very Moment I Knew That The United States Was In The War, Up To The Neck And In To The Death. So We Had Won After All! ... How Long The War Would Last Or In What Fashion It Would End No Man Could Tell, Nor Did I At This Moment Care ... We Should Not Be Wiped Out. Our History Would Not Come To An End ... Hitler's Fate Was Sealed. Mussolini's Fate Was Sealed. As For The Japanese, They Would Be Ground To A Powder. All The Rest Was Merely The Proper Application Of Overwhelming Force.

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.

What Does All This Stuff About Flying Saucers Amount To? What Can It Mean? What Is The Truth?

If You Are Going Through Hell Just Keep Going

I Expect You Will Find That Change Is The Best Kind Of Rest.

A Pessimist Sees Problems In Opportunities Whereas An Optimist Sees Opportunities In Problems.

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

May It Not Also Be That The Cause Of Civilization Itself Will Be Defended By The Skill And Devotion Of A Few Thousand Airmen? There Never Has Been, I Suppose, In All The World, In All The History Of War, Such An Opportunity For Youth. The Knights Of The Round Table, The Crusaders, All Fall Back Into The Past.

The Further Back I Look, The Further Forward I Can See.

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