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The Government Of India Had Imprisoned Mr. Gandhi And They Had Been Sitting Outside His Cell Door Begging Him To Help Them Out Of Their Difficulties.

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.

Danger, If Met Head On, Can Be Nearly Halved

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.

My Hand Seemed Arrested By A Silent Veto.

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

Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste

I Am Writing In One Of The Keepers' Lodges To Wh I Have Returned After Stalking & Where I Am Waiting For The Prince Of Wales. Quite The Best Day's Sport I Have Had In This Country - 4 Good Stags & Home Early!

If The Past Sits In Judgment On The Present, The Future Will Be Lost.

Never Hold Discussions With The Monkey When The Organ Grinder Is In The Room.

If I Was Your Wife Sir, I'd Poison You! Madam, If You Were My Wife, I'd Let You!

I Look Like A Down-and-out Drunk Who Has Been Picked Out Of The Gutter In The Strand.

We Are Not Meant To Find Peace In This World. The Spirit Of Life Cannot Exist Without Effort. Destroy The Rivalries Of Man And Nations And You Will Have Destroyed All That Makes For Betterment And Progress On Earth.

Criticism Is Easy; Achievement Is Difficult.

I Was Very Glad That Mr. Attlee Described My Speeches In The War As Expressing The Will Not Only Of Parliament But Of The Whole Nation. Their Will Was Resolute And Remorseless And, As It Proved, Unconquerable. It Fell To Me To Express It, And If I Found The Right Words You Must Remember That I Have Always Earned My Living By My Pen And By My Tongue. It Was A Nation And Race Dwelling All Round The Globe That Had The Lion Heart. I Had The Luck To Be Called Upon To Give The Roar.

We Proceeded Systematically, Village By Village And We Destroyed The Houses, Filled Up The Wells, Blew Down The Towers, Cut Down The Shady Trees, Burned The Crops And Broke The Reservoirs In Punitive Devastation.

I Do Not Understand The Squeamishness About The Use Of Gas. I Am Strongly In Favour Of Using Poisonous Gas Against Uncivilized Tribes.

It Is Never Possible To Guarantee Success, It Is Only Possible To Deserve It.

An Aphorism Is Not An Aphorism Unless You Know What It Means.

Writing A Book Is An Adventure. To Begin With It Is A Toy And An Amusement. Then It Becomes A Mistress, Then It Becomes A Master, Then It Becomes A Tyrant. The Last Phase Is That Just As You Are About To Be Reconciled To Your Servitude, You Kill The Monster And Fling Him To The Public.

I May Be Drunk, Miss, But In The Morning I Will Be Sober And You Will Still Be Ugly.

We Have Taken A Grave And Hazardous Decision To Sustain The Greeks And Try To Make A Balkan Front.

An Appeaser Is One Who Feeds A Crocodile, Hoping It Will Eat Him Last.

If A Woman Has "it," She Doesn't Need Anything Else; But If She Doesn't Have "it," It Doesn't Matter What Else She Has.

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

It Is Not Always Possible To Have Everything Go As One Likes. In Working With Allies, It Sometimes Happens That They Develop Opinions Of Their Own

Luckily ... There Were Zulus And Afghans, Also The Dervishes In The Soudan. Some Of These Might, If They Were Well-disposed, 'put Up A Show' Some Day.

We Shall Defend Every Village, Every Town And Every City. The Vast Mass Of London Itself, Fought Street By Street, Could Easily Devour An Entire Hostile Army; And We Would Rather See London Laid In Ruins And Ashes Than That It Should Be Tamely And Abjectly Enslaved.

Writing Is An Adventure.

Danger Gathers Upon Our Path. We Cannot Afford - We Have No Right - To Look Back. We Must Look Forward

Socialism Would Gather All Power To The Supreme Party And Party Leaders, Rising Like Stately Pinnacles Above Their Vast Bureaucracies Of Civil Servants No Longer Servants, No Longer Civil.

The Essence And Foundation Of House Of Commons Debating Is Formal Conversation. The Set Speech, The Harangue Addressed To Constituents, Or To The Wider Public Out Of Doors, Has Never Succeeded Much In Our Small Wisely-built Chamber. To Do Any Good You Have Got To Get Down To Grips With The Subject And In Human Touch With The Audience.

In War It Does Not Matter Who Is Right, But Who Is Left.

Science Has Given To This Generation The Means Of Unlimited Disaster Or Of Unlimited Progress. There Will Remain The Greater Task Of Directing Knowledge Lastingly Towards The Purpose Of Peace And Human Good.

This Generation

Far Be It From Me To Paint A Rosy Picture Of The Future...but I Should Be Failing In My Duty If, On The Other Side, I Were Not To Convey The True Impression, That This Great Nation Is Getting Into Its War Stride.

In The Past We Have Had A Light Which Flickered, In The Present We Have A Light Which Flames, And In The Future There Will Be A Light Which Shines Over All The Land And Sea.

Here Was A Place Where Real Things Were Going On. Here Was A Scene Of Vital Action. Here Was A Place Where Anything Might Happen. Here Was A Place Where Something Would Certainly Happen. Here I Might Leave My Bones.

I Do Not Agree That The Dog In A Manger Has The Final Right To The Manger Even Though He May Have Lain There For A Very Long Time. I Do Not Admit That Right. I Do Not Admit For Instance, That A Great Wrong Has Been Done To The Red Indians Of America Or The Black People Of Australia. I Do Not Admit That A Wrong Has Been Done To These People By The Fact That A Stronger Race, A Higher-grade Race, A More Worldly Wise Race To Put It That Way, Has Come In And Taken Their Place.

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.

It Helps To Write Down Half A Dozen Things Which Are Worrying Me. Two Of Them, Say, Disappear; About Two Of Them Nothing Can Be Done, So It's No Use Worrying; And Two Perhaps Can Be Settled.

True Genius Resides In The Capacity For Evaluation Of Uncertain, Hazardous, And Conflicting Information.

... 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.

Oh, What Is The Matter With Poor Puggy-wug? Pet Him And Kiss Him And Give Him A Hug. Run And Fetch Him A Suitable Drug. Wrap Him Up Tenderly All In A Rug. That Is The Way To Cure Puggy-wug.

I Will Not Pretend That If I Had To Choose Between Communism And Nazism I Would Choose Communism.

Remember Gentleman, It's Not Just France We're Fighting For, It's Champagne!

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

The Pashtun Tribes Are Always Engaged In Private Or Public War. Every Man Is A Warrior, A Politician And A Theologian Every Large House Is A Real Feudal Fortress....eve Ry Family Cultivates Its Vendetta; Every Clan, Its Feud....nothing Is Ever Forgotten And Very Few Debts Are Left Unpaid.

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

Study History, Study History. In History Lie All The Secrets Of Statecraft.

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

What Is Adequacy? Adequacy Is No Standard At All.

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.

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

"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.

The Worst Mistake That A Statesman Can Make Is To Promise Victory And To See It Dashed, The Hopes Dashed.

[the Balkans] Produce More History Than They Can Consume.

These Are Great Days.

If You Find Something You Really Love, You Will Never Work Again.

I Was Happy As A Child With My Toys In My Nursery. I Been Happier Every Year Since I Became A Man. But This Interlude Of School Makes A Somber Grey Patch Upon The Chart Of My Journey. It Was A Unending Spell Of Worries That Did Not Then Seem Petty, And Of Toil Uncheered By Fruition; A Time Of Discomfort, Restriction And Purposeless Monotony.

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

Land Monopoly Is Not Only Monopoly, But It Is By Far The Greatest Of Monopolies; It Is A Perpetual Monopoly, And It Is The Mother Of All Other Forms Of Monopoly.

When You Have To Kill A Man, It Costs Nothing To Be Polite.

The Gratitude Of Every Home In Our Island, In Our Empire, And Indeed Throughout The World, Except In The Abodes Of The Guilty, Goes Out To The British Airmen Who, Undaunted By Odds, Unwearied In Their Constant Challenge And Mortal Danger, Are Turning The Tide Of The World War By Their Prowess And By Their Devotion. Never In The Field Of Human Conflict Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few.

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.

Political Opinions

The Russians Will Try All The Rooms In A House, Enter Those That Are Not Locked, And When They Come To One That Cannot Be Broken Into, They Will Withdraw And Invite You To Dine Genially That Same Evening.

Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow And Sacrifice Will Be Born Again The Glory Of Mankind.

War Is Mainly A Catalogue Of Blunders.

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

Do You Know Why The Nose Of The Bull Dog Is Sloped Backwards? So It Can Keep On Breathing Without Ever Letting Go.

Elderly People And Those In Authority Cannot Always Be Relied Upon To Take Enlightened And Comprehending Views Of What They Call The Indiscretions Of Youth.

I Think A Curse Should Rest On Me - Because I Love This War. I Know It's Smashing And Shattering The Lives Of Thousands Every Moment - And Yet - I Can't Help It - I Enjoy Every Second Of It.

[magna Carta Provided] "a System Of Checks And Balances Which Would Accord The Monarchy Its Necessary Strength, But Would Prevent Its Perversion By A Tyrant Or A Fool.

Unteachable From Infancy To Tomb — There Is The First & Main Characteristic Of Mankind.

Characteristics

...every Offensive Lost Its Force As It Proceeded. It Was Like Throwing A Bucket Of Water Over The Floor. It First Rushed Forward, Then Soaked Forward, And Finally Stopped Altogether Until Another Bucket Could Be Brought.

Watch Your Actions, They Become Your Habits.

The Man Who Stands Firm In Order To Protect A Sand-castle Can Never Be Relied Upon; For He Has Given Away His Common Sense.

Never Believe Any War Will Be Smooth And Easy, Or That Anyone Who Embarks On The Strange Voyage Can Measure The Tides And Hurricanes He Will Encounter.

How I Hated Schools, And What A Life Of Anxiety I Lived There. I Counted The Hours To The End Of Every Term, When I Should Return Home.

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

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

Praise The Humanities, My Boy. That'll Make Them Think You're Broadminded!

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

Lobbyists Are The Touts Of Protected Industries.

Do Not Let Spacious Plans For A New World Divert Your Energies From Saving What Is Left Of The Old.

We Are Plunged In A Long And Grievous Struggle. But All Will Come Right If We All Work Together To The End.

Working Together

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.

He [president Franklin D. Roosevelt] Died In Harness, And We May Well Say In Battle Harness, Like His Soldiers, Sailors And Airmen Who Died Side By Side With Ours And Carrying Out Their Tasks To The End All Over The World. What An Enviable Death Was His.

These Two Great Organisations Of The English-speaking Democracies, The British Empire And The United States, Will Have To Be Somewhat Mixed Up Together In Some Affairs For Mutual And General Advantage. I Do Not View The Process With Any Misgivings. I Could Not Stop It If I Wished. Let It Roll On Full Flood, Inexorable, Irresistible, Benignant, To Broader Lands, And Better Days.

We Know Enough To Be Sure That The Scientific Achievements Of The Next Fifty Years Will Be Far Greater, More Rapid, And More Surprising, Than Those We Have Already Experienced. ... Wireless Telephones And Television, Following Naturally Upon The Their Present Path Of Development, Would Enable Their Owner To Connect Up To Any Room Similarly Equipped And Hear And Take Part In The Conversation As Well As If He Put His Head In Through The Window.

Side By Side ... The British And French Peoples Have Advanced To Rescue ... Mankind From The Foulest And Most Soul-destroying Tyranny Which Has Ever Darkened And Stained The Pages Of History. Behind Them ... Gather A Group Of Shattered States And Bludgeoned Races: The Czechs, The Poles, The Norwegians, The Danes, The Dutch, The Belgians -- Upon All Of Whom The Long Night Of Barbarism Will Descend, Unbroken Even By A Star Of Hope, Unless We Conquer, As Conquer We Must; As Conquer We Shall.

It Is Not Enough That We Do Our Best; Sometimes We Must Do What Is Required.

When The War Of The Giants Is Over The Wars Of The Pygmies Will Begin.

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

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

I Could Not Help Reflecting That The Bullet Which Had Struck The Chestnut [horse] Had Certainly Passed Within A Foot Of My Head. So At Any Rate I Had Been 'under Fire.' That Was Something.

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

That Long (canadian) Frontier From The Atlantic To The Pacific Ocean, Guarded Only By Neighbourly Respect And Honourable Obligations, As An Example To Every Country And A Pattern For The Future Of The World.

There Is Required For The Composition Of A Great Commander Not Only Massive Common Sense And Reasoning Power, Not Only Imagination, But Also An Element Of Legerdemain, An Original And Sinister Touch, Which Leaves The Enemy Puzzled As Well As Beaten.

Your Day Will Go The Way The Corners Of Your Mouth Turn.

He Has To Conceal What He Would Most Wish To Make Public, And Make Public What He Would Most Wish To Conceal.

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.

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

Most People Hate The Taste Of Beer - To Begin With. It Is, However, A Prejudice That Many People Have Been Able To Overcome.

History's Villains Are More Easily Recognized In Retrospect. In An Article Published In 1935 And Reprinted In 1937, Winston Churchill Expressed A Curious Ambivalence Towards The German Chancellor Prior To The Outbreak Of War: We Cannot Tell Whether Hitler Will Be The Man Who Will Once Again Let Loose Upon The World Another War In Which Civilization Will Irretrievably Succumb, Or Whether He Will Go Down In History As The Man Who Restored Honour And Peace Of Mind To The Great Germanic Nation. . . .

Atlee Is A Very Modest Man. And With Reason.

[there Are Dangers In] The Disposition To Hunt Down Rich Men As If They Were Noxious Beasts.

The Nation Will Find It Very Hard To Look Up To The Leaders Who Are Keeping Their Ears To The Ground.

It Is A Good Thing For An Uneducated Man To Read Books Of Quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Is An Admirable Work, And I Studied It Intently. The Quotations When Engraved Upon The Memory Give You Good Thoughts. They Also Make You Anxious To Read The Authors And Look For More.

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.

Nothing Is More Dangerous In Wartime Than To Live In The Temperamental Atmosphere Of A Gallup Poll, Always Feeling One's Pulse And Taking One's Temperature.

Expert Knowledge Is Limited Knowledge

Limited Knowledge

There Are Plenty Of Good Ideas, If Only They Can Be Backed With The Power Of Action.

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

The Navy Can Lose Us The War, But Only The Air Force Can Win It. Therefore Our Supreme Effort Must Be To Gain Overwhelming Mastery In The Air. The Fighters Are Our Salvation . . . But The Bombers Alone Provide The Means Of Victory. . . . In No Other Way At Present Visible Can We Hope To Overcome The Immense Military Power Of Germany.

When You Are Winning A War Almost Everything That Happens Can Be Claimed To Be Right And Wise.

There Is At Least One Thing Worse Than Fighting With Allies - And That Is To Fight Without Them

We Must Never Cease To Proclaim In Fearless Tones The Great Principles Of Freedom And The Rights Of Man Which Are The Joint Inheritance Of The English-speaking World And Which Through Magna Carta, The Bill Of Rights, The Habeas Corpus, Trial By Jury, And The English Common Law Find Their Most Famous Expression In The American Declaration Of Independence.

It Was At "little Lodge" I Was First Menaced With Education. The Approach Of A Sinister Figure Described As 'the Governess' Was Announced.

These Cruel, Wanton, Indiscriminate Bombings Of London Are, Of Course, A Part Of Hitler's Invasion Plans. He Hopes, By Killing Large Numbers Of Civilians, And Women And Children, That He Will Terrorise And Cow The People Of This Mighty Imperial City ... Little Does He Know The Spirit Of The British Nation, Or The Tough Fibre Of The Londoners.

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

No Sky Is Heavy If The Heart Be Light

Although Always Prepared For Martyrdom, I Preferred That It Should Be Postponed.

Russia Is A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma.

At The Depths Of That Dusty Soul There Is Nothing But Abject Surrender.

I Am Fond Of Pigs. Dogs Look Up To Us. Cats Look Down On Us. Pigs Treat Us As Equals.

There Is Only One Answer To Defeat And That Is Victory.

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.

To Secure Your Historical Standing, Be Sure You Are The First To Write About It.

The Tired Parts Of The Mind Can Be Rested And Strengthened Not Merely By Rest, But By Using Other Parts.

Millions Who Could Not Follow Closely Or Accurately The Main Events Of The War Looked Day After Day In The Papers For The Fortunes Of Mafeking, And When Finally The News Of Its Relief Was Flashed Throughout The World, The Streets Of London Became Impassable, And The Floods Of Sterling, Cockney Patriotism Were Released In Such A Deluge Of Unbridled, Delirious Joy As Was Never Witnessed Again Till Armistace Night, 1918.

My Tastes Are Simple. I Like Only The Very Best.

Mountaintops Inspire Leaders But Valleys Mature Them.

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?'

Let Us Reconcile Ourselves To The Mysterious Rhythm Of Our Destinies, Such As They Must Be In This World Of Space And Time.

Mr. Attlee Is A Very Modest Man. Indeed He Has A Lot To Be Modest About.

If We Could Get Out Of This Jam By Giving Up Malta And Gibraltar And Some African Colonies I Would Jump At It. But The Only Safe Way Is To Convince Hitler That He Cannot Beat Us.

The Truth Is Incontrovertible. Malice May Attack It, Ignorance May Deride It, But In The End, There It Is.

Fear Is A Reaction. Courage Is A Decision.

When The Eagles Are Silent, The Parrots Begin To Jabber.

It Is Not Given To Us To Peer Into The Mysteries Of The Future. Still, I Avow My Hope And Faith, Sure And Inviolate, That In The Days To Come The British And American Peoples Will For Their Own Safety And For The Good Of All Walk Together Side By Side In Majesty, In Justice, And In Peace.

I Do Not Wonder That British Youth Is In Revolt Against The Morbid Doctrine That Nothing Matters But The Equal Sharing Of Miseries; That What Used To Be Called The Submerged Tenth Can Only Be Rescued By Bringing The Other Nine-tenths Down To Their Le.

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.

Eating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion.

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

We Are All Functioning At A Small Fraction Of Our Capacity.

Exciting Adventures

We Shall Defend Our Island, Whatever The Cost May Be, We Shall Fight On The Beaches, We Shall Fight On The Landing Grounds, We Shall Fight In The Fields And In The Streets, We Shall Fight In The Hills; We Shall Never Surrender.

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.

Even Fools Are Right Sometimes.

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

Each One Hopes That If He Feeds The Crocodile Enough, The Crocodile Will Eat Him Last. All Of Them Hope That The Storm Will Pass Before Their Turn Comes To Be Devoured. But I Fear - I Fear Greatly - The Storm Will Not Pass. It Will Rage And It Will Roar, Even More Loudly, Even More Widely.

His Name Is Rufus Ii-but The Ii Is Silent.

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?

We (the British) Have Not Journeyed Across The Centuries, Across The Oceans, Across The Mountains, Across The Prairies, Because We Are Made Of Sugar Candy.

Never, Never, Never Believe Any War Will Be Smooth And Easy, Or That Anyone Who Embarks On The Strange Voyage Can Measure The Tides And Hurricanes He Will Encounter. The Statesman Who Yields To War Fever Must Realize That Once The Signal Is Given, He Is No Longer The Master Of Policy But The Slave Of Unforeseeable And Uncontrollable Events.

Nobody Ever Launched An Attack Without Having Misgivings Beforehand, You Ought To Have Misgivings Before; But When The Moment Of Action Is Come, The Hour Of Misgivings Is Passed. It Is Often Not Possible To Go Backward From A Course Which Has Been Adopted In War. A Man Must Answer "aye" Or "no" To The Great Questions Which Are Put, And By That Decision He Must Be Bound.

This Wicked Man Hitler, The Repository And Embodiment Of Many Forms Of Soul-destroying Hatred. This Monstrous Product Of Former Wrongs And Shame.

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

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.

No More Let Us Alter Or Falter Or Palter. From Malta To Yalta, And Yalta To Malta.

I Am Never Going To Have Anything More To Do With Politics Or Politicians. When This War Is Over I Shall Confine Myself Entirely To Writing And Painting.

Here Is The Answer Which I Will Give To President Roosevelt. Give Us The Tools, And We Will Finish The Job.

To Build May Have To Be The Slow And Laborious Task Of Years. To Destroy Can Be The Thoughtless Act Of A Single Day.

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

Rugby Is A Hooligans Game Played By Gentlemen.

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.

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

You Must Look At Facts, Because They Look At You.

If We Look To Our Responsibility To The Generations Yet Unborn Who Will Come After Us, How Can We Fail To Recognize That Peace And Freedom Are Inextricably Bound Up One With Another And That The Threat To One Is A Threat To Both

Never Give In, Never! Be It Concerning Large Things Or Small Things, Never, Never, Never!

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

If You Will Not Fight For Right When You Can Easily Win Without Bloodshed; If You Will Not Fight When Your Victory Will Be Sure And Not Too Costly; You May Come To The Moment When You Will Have To Fight With All Odds Against You And Only A Precarious Chance Of Survival. There May Be Even A Worse Fate, You May Have To Fight When There Is No Hope Of Victory, Because It Is Better To Perish Than To Live As Slaves.

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

The Shortest Road To Ruin Is To Emulate The Methods Of Your Adversary.

Keep Calm And Carry On.

Keep Calm And Carry On

He Has The Gift Of Compressing The Largest Amount Of Words Into The Smallest Amount Of Thoughts.

May There Not Be Methods Of Using Explosive Energy Incomparably More Intense Than Anything Heretofore Discovered? Might Not A Bomb No Bigger Than An Orange Be Found To Possess A Secret Power To Destroy A Whole Block Of Buildings-nay, To Concentrate The Force Of A Thousand Tons Of Cordite And Blast A Township At A Stroke? Could Not Explosives Even Of The Existing Type Be Guided Automatically In Flying Machines By Wireless Or Other Rays, Without A Human Pilot, In Ceaseless Procession Upon A Hostile City, Arsenal, Camp Or Dockyard?

There Never Will Be Enough For Everything While The World Goes On. The More That Is Given The More There Will Be Needed.

It May Be That Those Whose Work Is Their Pleasure Are Those Who Most Need The Means Of Banishing It At Intervals From Their Minds.

A Love Of Tradition Has Never Weakened A Nation.

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'.

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

I Accumulated In Those Years So Fine A Surplus In The Book Of Observance That I Have Been Drawing Confidently Upon It Ever Since.

Never Give In, Never Give In, Never Give In.

'no Comment' Is A Splendid Expression. I Am Using It Again And Again.

We Make A Living By What We Get, But We Make A Life By What We Give.

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.

I Am All For Your Using Machines, But Do Not Let Them Use You.

Do Not Trust Any Statistics You Did Not Fake Yourself.

Before The War It Had Seemed Incredible That Such Terrors And Slaughters, Even If They Began, Could Last More Than A Few Months. After The First Two Years It Was Difficult To Believe That They Would Ever End.

Great And Good Are Seldom The Same Man.

All Men Make Mistakes, But Only Wise Men Learn From Their Mistakes.

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.

When Danger Is Far Off We May Think Of Our Weakness; When It Is Near We Must Not Forget Our Strength.

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

The One Who Cannot See That On Earth A Big Endeavor Is Taking Place, An Important Plan, On Which Realization We Are Allowed To Collaborate As Faithful Servants, Certainly Has To Be Blind.

Faithful Servants

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

You See These Dictators On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police ... Yet In Their Hearts There Is Unspoken Fear. They Are Afraid Of Words And Thoughts: Words Spoken Abroad, Thoughts Stirring At Home -- All The More Powerful Because Forbidden -- Terrify Them. A Little Mouse Of Thought Appears In The Room, And Even The Mightiest Potentates Are Thrown Into Panic.

The Flags Of The Confederate States Of America Were Very Important And A Matter Of Great Pride To Those Citizens Living In The Confederacy. They Are Also A Matter Of Great Pride For Their Descendants As Part Of Their Heritage And History.

No Crime Is So Great As Daring To Excel.

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

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