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All Was There-the Programme Of German Resurrection, The Technique Of Party Propaganda; The Plan For Combating Marxism; The Concept Of A National-socialist State; The Rightful Position Of Germany At The Summit Ofthe World. Here Was The New Koran Of Faith And War: Turgid, Verbose, Shapeless, But Pregnant With Its Message.

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All Was There-the Programme

Winston Churchill

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All Was There-the Programme Of German Resurrection, The Technique Of Party Propaganda; The Plan For Combating Marxism; The Concept Of A National-socialist State; The Rightful Position Of Germany At The Summit Ofthe World. Here Was The New Koran Of Faith And War: Turgid, Verbose, Shapeless, But Pregnant With Its Message.

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I Myself Find Waiting More Tiring Than Action.

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 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.

Difficulties Mastered Are Opportunities Won.

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

Headmasters Have Powers At Their Disposal With Which Prime Ministers Have Never Yet Been Invested.

Let Our Advance Worrying Become Advance Thinking And Planning.

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

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

Some People Like The Jews, And Some Do Not. But No Thoughtful Man Can Deny The Fact That They Are, Beyond Any Question, The Most Formidable And The Most Remarkable Race Which Has Appeared In The World.

Those Who Serve Supreme Causes Must Not Consider What They Can Get But What They Can Give.

When A New Book Appears One Should Read An Old One.

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

There Is Only One Duty, Only One Safe Course, And That Is To Try To Be Right And Not To Fear To Do Or Say What You Believe To Be Right. That Is The Only Way To Deserve And To Win The Confidence Of Our Great People In These Days Of Trouble.

England Has Been Offered A Choice Between War And Shame. She Has Chosen Shame And Will Get War.

...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.

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

History With Its Flickering Lamp Stumbles Along The Trail Of The Past, Trying To Reconstruct Its Scenes, To Revive Its Echoes, And Kindle With Pale Gleams The Passion Of Former Days.

Our Free Trade Plan Is Quite Simple. We Say That Every [citizen] Shall Have The Right To Buy Whatever He Wants, Wherever He Wants, At His Own Good Pleasure, Without Restriction Or Discouragement From The State.

Better To Dare Mighty Things And Fail Than To Live In A Grey Twilight Where There Is Neither Victory Nor Defeat.

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

Fear Is A Reaction. Courage Is A Decision.

How I Hated This School, And What A Life Of Anxiety I Lived There For More Than Two Years.

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

I Was On The Whole Considerably Discouraged By My School Days... It Is Not Pleasant To Feel Oneself So Completely Outclassed And Left Behind At The Very Beginning Of The Race.

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

Let Us Set Up A Standard Around Which The Brave And The Loyal Can Rally.

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

I Am Easily Satisfied With The Very Best.

In War, The Truth Must Be Guarded By A Body Guard Of Lies.

On 17th July There Came To Us At Potsdam The Eagerly-awaited News Of The Trial Of The Atomic Bomb In The [new] Mexican Desert. Success Beyond All Dreams Crowded This Sombre, Magnificent Venture Of Our American Allies. The Detailed Reports ... Could Leave No Doubt In The Minds Of The Very Few Who Were Informed, That We Were In The Presence Of A New Factor In Human Affairs, And Possessed Of Powers Which Were Irresistible.

There Was A Man Who Sold A Hyena Skin While The Beast Still Lived And Who Was Killed In Hunting It.

You Do Your Worst, And We'll Do Our Best.

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

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

It Is A Great Mistake To Suppose That Thrift Is Caused Only By Fear; It Springs From Hope As Well As From Fear; Where There Is No Hope, Be Sure There Will Be No Thrift.

Democracy Is The Best Form Of The Worst Type Of Government

I Never Slept As Soundly As The Night Following Pearl Harbor. For I Knew That The American Race Would Now Be Entering The War And It Would Never Be The Same.

Never Give In. Never Give In. Never, Never, Never, Never -- In Nothing, Great Or Small, Large Or Petty -- Never Give In, Except To Convictions Of Honor And Good Sense.

Never Stand So High Upon A Principle That You Cannot Lower It To Suit The Circumstances.

Strategy Is All Very Well, But It Pays To Give Thought From Time To Time To The Results.

I Have Watched This Famous Island Descending Incontinently, Fecklessly, The Stairway Which Lead To A Dark Gulf.

It Happens That Once We Learn A Thing, The Motivation To Keep It Up Grows And Expands Further As Well. If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

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

Plans Are Worthless. Planning Is Priceless.

It Is A Curious Fact About British Islanders, Who Hate Drill And Have Not Been Invaded For Nearly A Thousand Years, That As Danger Comes Nearer And Grows They Become Progressively Less Nervous; When It Is Imminent The Are Fierce, When It Is Mortal They Are Fearless.

No Socialist Government Conducting The Entire Life And Industry Of The Country Could Afford To Allow Free, Sharp Or Violently Worded Expressions Of Public Discontent. They Would Have To Fall Back On Some Form Of Gestapo, No Doubt Very Humanly Directed In The First Instance.

Socialist Government

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

It Is Easier To Give Directions Than Advice, And More Agreeable To Have The Right To Act, Even In A Limited Sphere, Than The Privilege To Talk At Large.

Of All The Talents Bestowed Upon Men, None Is So Precious As The Gift Of Oratory !!

And Wherever Men Are Fighting Against Barbarism, Tyranny, And Massacre, For Freedom, Law, And Honour, Let Them Remember That The Fame Of Their Deeds, Even Though They Themselves Be Exterminated, May Perhaps Be Celebrated As Long As The World Rolls Round.

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

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

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

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

It Is All Right To Rat, But You Can't Re-rat.

I Have Never Promised Anything But Blood, Tears, Toil And Sweat. Now, However We Have A New Experience. We Have A Victory - A Remarkable And Definite Victory. The Bright Gleam Has Caught The Helmets Of Our Soldiers And Warmed And Cheered All Our Hearts.

New Experiences

The Substance Of The Eminent Socialist Gentlemen's Speech Is That Making A Profit Is A Sin. It Is My Belief That The Real Sin Is Taking A Loss!

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.]

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

Mr. Gladstone Read Homer For Fun, Which I Thought Served Him Right.

You Must Sleep Sometime Between Lunch And Dinner, And No Halfway Measures. Take Off Your Clothes And Get Into Bed. That's What I Always Do.

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

I Am Not Sure I Should Have Dared To Start; But I Am Sure That I Should Not Have Dared To Stop.

No Part Of The Education Of A Politician Is More Indispensable Than The Fighting Of Elections.

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

Great And Good Are Seldom The Same Man.

Socialism Needs To Pull Down Wealth; Liberalism Seeks To Raise Up Poverty. Socialism Would Destroy Private Interests, Liberalism Would Preserve [them] ... By Reconciling Them With Public Right. Socialism Would Kill Enterprise; Liberalism Would Rescue Enterprise From The Trammels Of Privilege And Preference. Socialism Assails The Preeminence Of The Individual; Liberalism Seeks ... To Build Up A Minimum Standard For The Mass. Socialism Exalts The Rule; Liberalism Exalts The Man. Socialism Attacks Capitalism; Liberalism Attacks Monopoly.

I Am A Sporting Man. I Always Like To Give Trains And Aeroplanes A Fair Chance Of Getting Away.

In Hitler's Launching Of The Nazi Campaign Upon Russia We Can Already See, After Less Than Six Months Of Fighting, That He Made One Of The Outstanding Blunders Of History, And The Results So Far Realized Constitute An Event Of Cardinal Importance In The Final Decision Of The War.

Democracy Means That If The Doorbell Rings In The Early Hours, It Is Likely To Be The Milkman.

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You Leave Out God, And You Substitute The Devil.

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

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You Will Never Reach Your Destination If You Stop And Throw Stones At Every Dog That Barks.

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

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

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Attitude Is A Little Thing That Makes A Big Difference.

Always Remember, A Cat Looks Down On Man, A Dog Looks Up To Man, But A Pig Will Look Man Right In The Eye And See His Equal.

I Have Worked Very Hard With Nehru. I Told Him He Should Be The Light Of Asia, To Show All Those Millions How They Can Shine Out, Instead Of Accepting The Darkness Of Communism.

I Was Born Under The Blue Ridge, And Under That Side Which Is Blue In The Evening Light, In A Wild Land Of Game And Forest And Rushing Waters.

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

Sure I Am Of This, That You Have Only To Endure To Conquer.

Atlee Is A Very Modest Man. And With Reason.

Whenever I Feel The Need To Take Some Exercise I Lie Down Until The Feeling Goes Away.

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

We Make Our Buildings, And Then Our Buildings Make And Shape Us.

History With Its Flickering Lamp Stumbles Along The Trail Of The Past, Trying To Reconstruct Its Scenes, To Revive Its Echoes, And Kindle With Pale Gleams The Passion Of Former Days. What Is The Worth Of All This? The Only Guide To A Man Is His Conscience; The Only Shield To His Memory Is The Rectitude And Sincerity Of His Actions. It Is Very Imprudent To Walk Through Life Without This Shield, Because We Are So Often Mocked By The Failure Of Our Hopes And The Upsetting Of Our Calculations; But With This Shield, However The Fates May Play, We March Always In The Ranks Of Honor.

There Must Be What Mr. Gladstone Many Years Ago Called A Blessed Act Of Oblivion. We Must All Turn Our Backs Upon The Horrors Of The Past. We Must Look To The Future. We Cannot Afford To Drag Forward Across The Years That Are To Come The Hatreds And Revenges Which Have Sprung From The Injuries Of The Past.

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.

To Jaw-jaw Is Always Better Than To War-war.

I Drink And Smoke And I Am Two Hundred Percent Fit.

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.

The Aryan Stock Is Bound To Triumph.

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 British People Are Good All Through. You Can Test Them As You Would Put A Bucket Into The Sea And Always Find It Salt.

Writing Is An Adventure.

The Struggle Which Is Now Beginning Between The Zionist And Bolshevik Jews Is Little Less Than A Struggle For The Soul Of The Jewish People.

I Was Shown A Picture By Cézanne Of A Blank Wall Of A House, Which He Had Made Instinct With The Most Delicate Lights And Colours.

To Meet Roosevelt With All His Buoyant Sparkle, His Iridescence, Was Like Opening A Bottle Of Champagne.

Death And Sorrow Will Be The Companions Of Our Journey; Hardship Our Garment; Constancy And Valor Our Only Shield. We Must Be United, We Must Be Undaunted, We Must Be Inflexible.

Mr. Chamberlain Loves The Working Man, He Loves To See Him Work.

Our Future Is In Our Hands. Our Lives Are What We Choose To Make Them.

Dead Birds Don't Fall Out Of Their Nests.

It Is The People Who Control The Government, Not The Government The People.

[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.

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.

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

A Single Glass Of Champagne Imparts A Feeling Of Exhilaration. The Nerves Are Braced; The Imagination Is Stirred, The Wits Become More Nimble.

Champagne Drinking

When You're Going Through Hell - Just Keep On Going!

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? How Else Can We Put Ourselves In Harmonious Relation With The Great Verities And Consolations Of The Infinite And The Eternal? And I Avow My Faith That We Are Marching Towards Better Days. Humanity Will Not Be Cast Down. We Are Going On Swinging Bravely Forward Along The Grand High Road And Already Behind The Distant Mountains Is The Promise Of The Sun.

The Definition Of Courage Is Going From Defeat To Defeat With Enthusiasm.

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.

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.

I Am Sorry To Have Made Such A Long Speech, But I Did Not Have Time To Write A Shorter One.

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

Really I Feel Less Keen About The Army Every Day. I Think The Church Would Suit Me Better.

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

When I Am Abroad, I Always Make It A Rule Never To Criticize Or Attack The Government Of My Own Country. I Make Up For Lost Time When I Come Home.

Indeed I Do Not Think We Should Be Justified In Using Any But The More Sombre Tones And Colours While Our People, Our Empire, And Indeed The Whole English-speaking World Are Passing Through A Dark And Deadly Valley.

Manifest Destiny Was On The March, And It Was Unfortunate That Mexico Stood In The Path.

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

Without Tradition, Art Is A Flock Of Sheep Without A Shepherd. Without Innovation, It Is A Corpse.

Do What You Like, But Like What You Do.

How Little Can We Foresee The Consequences Either Of Wise Or Unwise Action, Of Virtue Or Of Malice. Without This Measureless And Perpetual Uncertainty, The Drama Of Human Life Would Be Destroyed.

To Try To Be Safe Everywhere Is To Be Strong Nowhere.

Some Civil Servants Are Neither Servants Nor Civil.

There Is Only One Duty, Only One Safe Course, And That Is To Try To Be Right.

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

I Cannot Pretend To Be Impartial About The Colours. I Rejoice With The Brilliant Ones, And Am Genuinely Sorry For The Poor Browns.

In All The Twelve Years I Was At School No One Ever Succeeded In Making Me Write A Latin Verse Or Learn Any Greek Except The Alphabet.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt Was Like Opening Your First Bottle Of Champagne; Knowing Him Was Like Drinking It.

An Iron Curtain Has Descended Over Europe.

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

There Is No Purpose In Living Where There Is Nothing To Do.

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

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.

It Is All True, Or It Ought To Be; And More And Better Besides.

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

We Are Stripped Bare By The Curse Of Plenty. [referring To The Theory That Over-production Caused The Depression]

I Feel Devoutly Thankful To Have Been Born Fond Of Writing.

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

Do Not Let Us Speak Of Darker Days, Let Us Speak Rather Of Sterner Days. These Are Not Dark Days: These Are Great Days-the Greatest Days Our Country Has Ever Lived; And We Must All Thank God That We Have Been Allowed, Each Of Us According To Our Stations, To Play A Part In Making These Days Memorable In The History Of Our Race.

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.

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.

It Would Be An Inconvenient Rule If Nothing Could Be Done Until Everything Can Be Done.

Historians Are Apt To Judge War Ministers Less By The Victories Achieved Under Their Direction Than By The Political Results Which Flowed From Them. Judged By That Standard, I Am Not Sure That I Shall Be Held To Have Done Very Well.

If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

War Is Mainly A Catalogue Of Blunders.

We Must Be Very Careful Not To Assign This Deliverance The Attributes Of A Victory. Wars Are Not Won By Evacuations

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

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

If You Are Going Through Hell Just Keep Going

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.

When Great Causes Are On The Move In The World, Stirring All Men's Souls, Drawing Them From Their Firesides, Casting Aside Comfort, Wealth And The Pursuit Of Happiness In Response To Impulses At Once Awe-striking And Irresistible, We Learn That We Are Spirits, Not Animals.

Pursuit Of Happiness

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.

Madam, If You Were My Wife, I Would Drink It.

The Rest And The Spell Of Sleep In The Middle Of The Day Refresh The Human Frame Far More Than A Long Night. We Were Not Made By Nature To Work, Or Even To Play, From Eight O'clock In The Morning Till Midnight. We Throw A Strain Upon Our System Which Is Unfair And Improvident. For Every Purpose Of Business Or Pleasure, Mental Or Physical, We Ought To Break Our Days And Our Marches Into Two.

Arm Yourselves, And Be Ye Men Of Valor, And Be In Readiness For The Conflict; For It Is Better For Us To Perish In Battle Than To Look Upon The Outrage Of Our Nation And Our Altar.

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.

One Cannot Leap A Chasm In Two Jumps.

Perfectionism Spells Paralysis.

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

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

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

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.

Unless Some Effective Supranational Government Can Be Set Up And Brought Quickly Into Action, The Prospects Of Peace And Human Progress Are Dark And Doubtful.

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

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

The Tank Was Originally Invented To Clear A Way For The Infantry In The Teeth Of Machine-gun Fire. Now It Is The Infantry Who Will Have To Clear A Way For The Tanks.

Go Into The Sunshine And Be Happy With What You See.

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.

If Hitler Invaded Hell, I'd Find Something Nice To Say About The Devil Himself.

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.

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

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

The Acts We Engage In For Appeasment Today, We Will Have To Remedy At Far Greater Cost And Remorse Tomorrow.

Thus Ended The Great American Civil War, Which Must Upon The Whole Be Considered The Noblest And Least Avoidable Of All The Great Mass Conflicts Of Which Till Then There Was Record.

Great Success Always Comes At The Risk Of Enormous Failure.

Never Give Up On Something That You Can't Go A Day Without Thinking About.

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.

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

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

Writing ... It Begins As An Amusement, Then It Becomes A Mistress, Then A Master, And Finally A Tyrant.

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."

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

Never Run Away From Anything. Never!

Double Standard

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

Sunshine Is My Quest.

Men And Kings Must Be Judged In The Testing Moments Of Their Lives. Courage Is Rightly Esteemed The First Of Human Qualities, Because, As Has Been Said, It Is The Quality Which Guarantees All Others.

A Prisoner Of War Is A Man Who Tries To Kill You And Fails, And Then Asks You Not To Kill Him.

English Literature Is A Glorious Inheritance Which Is Open To All - There Are No Barriers, No Coupons, And No Restrictions. In The English Language And In Its Great Writers There Are Great Riches And Treasures, Of Which, Of Course, The Bible And Shakespeare Stand Along On The Highest Platform.

In Defeat, Unbeatable; In Victor, Unbearable

The Destiny Of Man Is Not Measured By Material Computations. When Great Forces Are On The Move In The World, We Learn We’re Spirits—not Animals…. There’s Something Going On In Time And Space, And Beyond Time And Space, Which, Whether We Like It Or Not, Spells Duty.

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.

We Shall Escape The Absurdity Of Growing A Whole Chicken In Order To Eat The Breast Or Wing, By Growing These Parts Separately Under A Suitable Medium.

Nothing Is Won Without Enthusiasm.

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