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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]

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Delight In Smooth Sounding

Winston Churchill

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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]

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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...i Feel The Need For More Precise Concentration Upon Military Objectives, Such As Oil And Communications Behind The Immediate Battle-zone, Rather Than On Mere Acts Of Terror And Wanton Destruction, However Impressive.

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Courage Is Rightly Considered The Foremost Of The Virtues, For Upon It All Others Depend.

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The Golcondas Were Considered Incomparably The Best Team In Southern India ... [but] We Defeated [them] By 9 Goals To 3. On Succeeding Days We Made Short Work Of All Other Opponents, And Established The Record, Never Since Broken, Of Winning A First-class Tournament Within Fifty Days Of Landing In India.

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The Vistas Of Possibility Are Only Limited By The Shortness Of Life.

Shortness Of Life

I Have Found In My Experience Of War, That Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Invaluable.

An Iron Curtain Has Descended Over Europe.

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

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.

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

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There Is No Worse Mistake In Public Leadership Than To Hold Out False Hopes Soon To Be Swept Away. The British People Can Face Peril Or Misfortune With Fortitude And Buoyancy, But They Bitterly Resent Being Deceived Or Finding That Those Responsible For Their Affairs Are Themselves Dwelling In A Fool's Paradise.

Advertising Mourishes The Consuming Power Of Men. It Sets Up Before A Man The Goal Of A Better Home, Better Clothing, Better Food For Himself And His Family. It Spurs Individual Exertion And Greater Production.

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

We Shall Come Through! We Cannot Tell When, We Cannot Tell How, But We Shall Come Through.

The World, Nature, Human Beings, Do Not Move Like Machines. The Edges Are Never Clear-cut, But Always Frayed. Nature Never Draws A Line Without Smudging It.

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Nothing Will Bring American Sympathy Along With Us So Much As American Blood Shed In The Field.

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There Is No Working Middle Course In Wartime.

We Shape Our Homes And Then Our Homes Shape Us.

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He Has All Of The Virtues I Dislike And None Of The Vices I Admire.

The Rhinoceros Stood ... About Five Hundred Yards Away ... Not A Twentieth-century Animal At All, But An Odd, Grim Straggler From The Stone Age.

He Sees With Amazement That Our Defeats Are But The Stepping Stones To Victory And That All His Victories Are Stepping Stones To Ruin. It Was Apparent To Me That This Bad Man Saw Quite Clearly The Shadow Of Slowly And Remorselessly Approaching Doom, And He Railed At Fortune For Mocking Him With The Glitter Of Fleeting Success.

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

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

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Out Of Intense Complexities Intense Simplicities Emerge. Broadly Speaking, The Short Words Are The Best, And The Old Words When Short Are Best Of All.

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I Gather, Young Man, That You Wish To Be A Member Of Parliament. The First Lesson That You Must Learn Is, When I Call For Statistics About The Rate Of Infant Mortality, What I Want Is Proof That Fewer Babies Died When I Was Prime Minister Than When Anyone Else Was Prime Minister. That Is A Political Statistic.

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

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We Shall Fight In Parking Lots, We Shall Fight In Empty Fields And On Wide Streets, We Shall Never Surrender.

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

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If This Long Island Story Of Ours Is To End At Last, Let It End Only When Each One Of Us Lies, Choking In His Own Blood Upon The Ground.

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

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 Ought Never To Turn One's Back On A Threatened Danger And Try To Run Away From It. If You Do That, You Will Double The Danger. But If You Meet It Promptly And Without Flinching, You Will Reduce The Danger By Half. Never Run Away From Anything. Never!

Double Standard

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

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

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We Have Always Found The Irish A Bit Odd. They Refuse To Be English.

I Want No Criticism Of America At My Table. The Americans Criticize Themselves More Than Enough.

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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.

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.

A Medal Glitters, But It Also Casts A Shadow.

I Have Always Had A Curious Nature; I Enjoy Learning, But I Dislike Being Taught.

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Perfectionism Spells Paralysis.

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

Everyone Can Recognize History When It Happens. Everyone Can Recognize History After Is Has Happened; But Only The Wise Man Knows At The Moment What Is Vital And Permanent, What Is Lasting And Memorable.

It Is Better To Be Frightened Now Than Killed Hereafter

Even Fools Are Right Sometimes.

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.

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

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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!

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Perfect Solutions Of Our Difficulties Are Not To Be Looked For In An Imperfect World.

Imperfect World

There But For The Grace Of God, Goes God.

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

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

I Only Believe In Statistics That I Doctored Myself

When You Leave Off Dreaming, The Universe Ceases To Exist.

The Only Thing Wrong With Christianity Is The Lack Of Suffering.

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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.

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.

Just To Paint Is Great Fun. The Colours Are Lovely To Look At And Delicious To Squeeze Out. Matching Them, However Crudely, With What You See Is Fascinating And Absolutely Absorbing.

Science Unfolded Her Treasures And Her Secrets To The Desperate Demands Of Men, And Placed In Their Hands Agencies And Apparatus Almost Decisive In Their Character. Reflecting On The Outcome Of World War I, And An Ominous Future.

Diversity Is The One True Thing We All Have In Common... Celebrate It Every Day.

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.

No Folly Is More Costly Than The Folly Of Intolerant Idealism.

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.

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

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.

Rules Were Made For Fools To Follow And Wise Men To Be Guided By.

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

Everyone Has His Day And Some Days Last Longer Than Others.

When Iraq Becomes Strong Enough In Our Opinion To Stand Alone, We Shall Be In A Position To State That Our Task Has Been Fulfilled, And That Iraq Is An Independent Sovereign State. But This Cannot Be Said While We Are Forced Year After Year To Spend Very Large Sums Of Money On Helping The Iraqi Government To Defend Itself And Maintain Order.

I Have Never Developed Indigestion From Eating My Words.

Quotations When Engraved Upon The Memory Give You Good Thoughts.

We Shall Go Forward Together. The Road Upwards Is Stony. There Are Upon Our Journey Dark And Dangerous Valleys Through Which We Have To Make And Fight Our Way. But It Is Sure And Certain That If We Persevere - And We Shall Persevere - We Shall Come Through These Dark And Dangerous Valleys Into A Sunlight Broader And More Genial And More Lasting Than Mankind Has Ever Known.

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