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Only Changes In Mindsets Can Extend The Frontiers Of The Possible.

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

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

Never Engage In A Battle Of Wits With An Unarmed Man.

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.

No One Should Waste A Day.

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

Nothing Can Be More Abhorrent To Democracy Than To Imprison A Person Or Keep Him In Prison Because He Is Unpopular. This Is Really The Test Of Civilization.

An Efficient And A Successful Administration Manifests Itself Equally In Small As In Great Matters.

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

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

Are You An Action-oriented, Take-charge Person Interested In Exciting New Challenges? As Director Of A Major Public-sector Organization, You Will Manage A Large Armed Division And Interface With Other Senior Executives In A Team-oriented, Multinational Initiative In The Global Marketplace. Successful Candidate Will Have Above-average Oral-presentation Skills

There Is No Limit To The Ingenuity Of Man If It Is Properly And Vigorously Applied Under Conditions Of Peace And Justice.

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

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

The Only Guide To Man Is His Conscience.

Great And Good Are Seldom The Same Man.

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

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.

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

A Polo Handicap Is A Persons Ticket To The World.

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

From Stettin In The Baltic To Trieste In The Atlantic, An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across The Continent. Behind The Line Lie All The Capitals Of The Ancient States Of Central And Eastern Europe... All These Famous Cities And The Populations Around Them Lie In What I Must Call The Soviet Sphere, And All Are Subject In One Form Or Another, Not Only To Soviet Influence But To A Very High And, In Many Cases, Increasing Measure Of Control From Moscow.

I Always Avoid Prophesying Beforehand, Because It Is A Much Better Policy To Prophesy After The Event Has Already Taken Place.

And Do Not Suppose That This Is The End. This Is Only The Beginning Of The Reckoning. This Is Only The First Sip, The First Foretaste Of A Bitter Cup Which Will Be Proffered To Us Year By Year Unless By A Supreme Recovery Of Moral Health And Martial Vigour, We Arise Again And Take Our Stand For Freedom As In The Olden Time.

Socialism Is Like A Dream. Sooner Or Later You Wake Up To Reality.

I Have Not Become The Kings First Minister In Order To Preside Over The Liquidation Of The British Empire.

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

The Navy Can Lose Us The War, But Only The Air Force Can Win It. The Fighters Are Our Salvation, But The Bombers Alone Provide The Means Of Victory.

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.

I Have Never Accepted What Many People Have Kindly Said - Namely That I Inspired The Nation. Their Will Was Resolute And Remorseless, And As It Proved, Unconquerable. It Fell To Me To Express It.

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

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.

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

These, Gentlemen, Are The Opinions Upon Which I Base My Facts.

Atlee Is A Very Modest Man. And With Reason.

It Is A Good Thing For An Uneducated Man To Read Books Of Quotations.

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

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

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.

This Movement Among The Jews Is Not New... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilisation And For The Reconstitution Of Society On The Basis Of Arrested Development, Of Envious Malevolence, And Impossible Equality, Has Been Steadily Growing... It Has Been The Mainspring Of Every Subversive Movement During The Nineteenth Century.

World Government

Decided Only To Be Undecided, Resolved To Be Irresolute, Adamant For Drift, Solid For Fluidity, All-powerful To Be Impotent.

My Rule Of Life Prescribed As An Absolutely Sacred Rite Smoking Cigars.

The Pictorial Battlefield Becomes A Sea Of Mud Mercifully Veiled By The Fog Of War.

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

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.

Difficulties Mastered Are Opportunities Won.

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

Courage Is The Ability To Go From Failure To Failure With Enthusiasm.

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

With The End Of The Victorian Era, We Passed Into What I Feel I Must Call The Terrible 20th Century

Fear Is A Reaction. Courage Is A Decision.

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.

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

In Finance Everything That Is Agreeable Is Unsound And Everything That Is Sound Is Disagreeable.

The Era Of Procrastination, Of Half-measures, Of Soothing And Baffling Expedients, Of Delays Is Coming To Its Close. In Its Place We Are Entering A Period Of Consequences.

Procrastination

Success Is The Ability To Continue To Move Through Total Disaster.

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.

It Is Wonderful What Great Strides Can Be Made When There Is A Resolute Purpose Behind Them.

Those Who Plan Do Better Than Those Who Do Not Plan, Even Should They Rarely Stick To Their Plan.

Do What You Like, But Like What You Do.

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

It's Never Over 'till It's Over! Never Give Up! Never.

Never Giving Up

There Is A Hush Over All Europe, Nay, Over All The World. Alas! It Is The Hush Of Suspense, And In Many Lands It Is The Hush Of Fear. Listen! No, Listen Carefully, I Think I Hear Somethingyes, There It Was Quite Clear. Dont You Hear It? It Is The Tramp Of Armies Crunching The Gravel Of The Paradegrounds, Splashing Through Rain-soaked Fields, The Tramp Of Two Million German Soldiers And More Than A Million Italiansgoing On Maneuversyes, Only On Maneuvers!

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.

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

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

Human Beings Are Of Two Classes: Those Whose Work Is Work And Whose Pleasure Is Pleasure; And Those Whose Work And Pleasure Are One.

We Shall Defend Our Island Whatever The Cost May Be; We Shall Fight On Beaches, Landing Grounds, In Fields, In Streets And On The Hills. We Shall Never Surrender And Even If, Which I Do Not For The Moment Believe, This Island Or A Large Part Of It Were Subjugated And Starving, Then Our Empire Beyond The Seas, Armed And Guarded By The British Fleet, Will Carry On The Struggle Until In God's Good Time The New World With All Its Power And Might, Sets Forth To The Liberation And Rescue Of The Old.

I Have Benefited Greatly From Criticism, And At No Time Have I Suffered A Lack Thereof.

Don't Argue About The Difficulties. The Difficulties Will Argue For Themselves.

Next Time I Go Into The Action - I Shall Command A Hundred Men - & Possibly I May Bring Off Some Coup. Besides I Shall Have Some Other Motive For Taking Chances Than Merely "love Of Adventure".

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!

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

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.

As Long As We Have Faith In Our Own Cause And An Unconquerable Will To Win, Victory Will Not Be Denied Us.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To Achieve The Extirpation Of Nazi Tyranny There Are No Lengths Of Violence To Which We Will Not Go.

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

It Is Not Given To Human Beings, Happily For Them, For Otherwise Life Would Be Intolerable, To Foresee Or To Predict To Any Large Extent The Unfolding Course Of Events.

I Like A Man Who Grins When He Fights.

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

'keep England White' Is A Good Slogan.

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.

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

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

There Are Few Virtues That The Poles Do Not Possess And There Are Few Errors They Have Ever Avoided.

It Excites World Wonder In The Parliamentary Countries That We Should Build A Chamber, Starting Afresh, Which Can Only Seat Two-thirds Of Its Members. It Is Difficult To Explain This To Those Who Do Not Know Our Ways. They Cannot Easily Be Made To Understand Why We Consider That The Intensity, Passion, Intimacy, Informality And Spontaneity Of Our Debates Constitute The Personality Of The House Of Commons And Endow It At Once With Its Focus And Its Strength.

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.

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

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

One Does Not Leave A Convivial Party Before Closing Time.

I Thought Of A Remark . . . That The United States Is Like A 'gigantic Boiler. Once The Fire Is Lighted Under It There Is No Limit To The Power It Can Generate.' Being Saturated And Satiated With Emotion And Sensation, I Went To Bed And Slept The Sleep Of The Saved And Thankful.

A Fanatic Is One Who Can't Change His Mind And Won't Change The Subject.

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.

With Opportunity Comes Responsibility.

A Medal Glitters, But It Also Casts A Shadow.

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.

We Are Shaping The World Faster Than We Can Change Ourselves, And We Are Applying To The Present The Habits Of The Past.

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

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.

The Press Is Easier To Strangle Than To Look In The Eyes.

We Are All Worms. But I Believe That I Am A Glow-worm.

Say What You Have To Say And The First Time You Come To A Sentence With A Grammatical Ending - Sit Down.

It Is Bad For A Nation When It Is Without Faith.

If You Go On With This Nuclear Arms Race, All You Are Going To Do Is Make The Rubble Bounce.

One Man With Conviction Will Overwhelm A Hundred Who Have Only Opinions.

Art Is To Beauty What Honor Is To Honesty.

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

The Belief That Security Can Be Obtained By Throwing A Small State To The Wolves Is A Fatal Delusion.

A Lie Gets Halfway Around The World Before The Truth Has A Chance To Get Its Pants On.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

But Who In War Will Not Have His Laugh Amid The Skulls?

The Dark Ages May Return-the Stone Age May Return On The Gleaming Wings Of Science; And What Might Now Shower Immeasureable Material Blessings Upon Mankind May Even Bring About Its Total Destruction. Beware! I Say. Time May Be Short. Referring To The Discovery Of Atomic Energy.

Criticism Is Easy; Achievement Is Difficult.

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

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.]

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

Democracy Is An Awful Way To Run A Country, But It's The Best System We Have.

I Like Things To Happen, And If They Don't Happen I Like To Make Them Happen.

Make Things Happen

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

I Play For High Stakes And Given An Audience - There Is No Act Too Daring Or Too Noble.

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

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.

The Dictator, In All His Pride, Is Held In The Grip Of His Party Machine. He Can Go Forward; He Cannot Go Back. He Must Blood His Hounds And Show Them Sport, Or Else, Like Actaeon Of Old, Be Devoured By Them. All-strong Without, He Is All-weak Within.

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.

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

The Difference Between Mere Management And Leadership Is Communication.

Logic Is A Poor Guide Compared With Custom.

I'd Rather Be Right Than Consistent.

I Was Only The Servant Of My Country And Had I, At Any Moment, Failed To Express Her Unflinching Resolve To Fight And Conquer, I Should At Once Have Been Rightly Cast Aside.

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.

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

There Is No Better Exercise Than To Study And Devour A Picture, And Then, Without Looking At It Again, To Attempt The Next Day To Reproduce It.

Dead Birds Don't Fall Out Of Their Nests.

Painting Is The Same Kind Of Problem As Unfolding A Long, Sustained Interlocked Argument... It Is A Proposition Commanded By A Single Unity Of Conception.

Ethics Evolve Naturally, And We Trample Upon Them With Laws Created By Reason And Experience.

Plans Are Worthless. Planning Is Priceless.

Give Me The Facts, And I Will Twist Them The Way I Want, To Suit My Argument.

God Alone Knows How Great It Is. All I Hope Is That It Is Not Too Late. I Am Very Much Afraid That It Is. We Can Only Do Our Best.

Lobbyists Are The Touts Of Protected Industries.

When You Are On A Great Horse, You Have The Best Seat You Will Ever Have.

We Must Beware Of Trying To Build A Society In Which Nobody Counts For Anything Except A Politician Or An Official, A Society Where Enterprise Gains No Reward And Thrift No Privileges

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.

... 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.

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

Every Garden Presents Innumerable Fascinating Problems.

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

Delight In Smooth Sounding Platitudes, Refusal To Face Unpleasant Facts ... Genuine Love Of Peace And Pathetic Belief That Love Can Be Its Sole Foundation ... The Utter Devotion Of The Liberals To Sentiment Apart From Reality ...though Free From Wickedness Or Evil Design, Played A Definite Part In The Unleashing Upon The World Of Horrors And Miseries [wwii]

Bearing Ourselves Humbly Before God... We Await Undismayed The Impending Assault.... Be The Ordeal Sharp Or Long, Or Both, We Shall Seek No Terms, We Shall Tolerate No Parlay; We May Show Mercy - We Shall Ask For None.

It Is Better To Be Frightened Now Than Killed Hereafter

The Day May Dawn When Fair Play, Love For One's Fellow Men, Respect For Justice And Freedom, Will Enable Tormented Generations To March Forth Serene And Triumphant From The Hideous Epoch In Which We Have To Dwell. Meanwhile, Never Flinch, Never Weary, Never Despair.

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.

I Have Always Felt That A Politician Is To Be Judged By The Animosities He Excites Among His Opponents.

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.

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.

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

A Man Who Gets The Reputation Of Rising At Dawn Can Sleep To Noon.

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

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

Haven't You Learned Yet That I Put Something More Than Whisky Into My Speeches.

It Seems To Me That The Moment Has Come When The Question Of Bombing Of German Cities Simply For The Sake Of Increasing The Terror, Though Under Other Pretexts, Should Be Reviewed.

A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing.

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

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

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

For My Part, I Consider That It Will Be Found Much Better By All Parties To Leave The Past To History, Especially As I Propose To Write That History Myself.

All This Contains Much That Is Obviously True, And Much That Is Relevant; Unfortunately, What Is Obviously True Is Not Relevant, And What Is Relevant Is Not Obviously True.

There Is Nothing Like Oratory, It Is A Skill That Can Turn A Commoner Into A King.

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.

How Fortunate It Was For The World That When These Great Trials Came Upon It There Was A Generation That Terror Could Not Conquer And Brutal Violence Could Not Enslave.

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

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

Never Pass Up The Chance To Sit Down Or Go To The Bathroom.

The Inherent Blessing Of Socialism Is The Equal Sharing Of Misery.

The Painter Wanders And Loiters Contentedly From Place To Place, Always On The Lookout For Some Brilliant Butterfly Of A Picture Which Can Be Caught And Carried Safely Home.

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

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

Most Of The World's Work Is Done By People Who Don't Feel Very Well.

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.

It Is With Deep Grief I Watch The Clattering Down Of The British Empire With All Its Glories And All The Services It Has Rendered To Mankind.

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

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

We Are Masters Of The Unsaid Words, But Slaves Of Those We Let Slip Out.

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

There Are A Terrible Lot Of Lies Going About The World, And The Worst Of It Is That Half Of Them Are True.

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.

Healthy Citizens Are The Greatest Asset Any Country Can Have.

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

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