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From Now On We Shall Bomb Germany On An Ever-increasing Scale, Month By Month, Year By Year, Until The Nazi Regime Has Either Been Exterminated By Us Or - Better Still - Torn To Pieces By The German People Themselves.

-Winston Churchill

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From Now On We Shall Bomb Germany On An Ever-increasing Scale, Month By Month, Year By Year, Until The Nazi Regime Has Either Been Exterminated By Us Or - Better Still - Torn To Pieces By The German People Themselves.

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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.

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

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

We Contend That For A Nation To Try To Tax Itself Into Prosperity Is Like A Man Standing In A Bucket And Trying To Lift Himself Up By The Handle.

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

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

Saving Is A Fine Thing. Especially When Your Parents Have Done It For You.

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

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

It May Well Be That We Shall By A Process Of Sublime Irony Have Reached A State In This Story Where Safety Will Be The Sturdy Child Of Terror, And Survival The Twin Brother Of Annihilation.

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.

Never, Ever Ever Ever Ever Give Up.

Eating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion.

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

It Is Hard, If Not Impossible, To Snub A Beautiful Woman - They Remain Beautiful And The Snub Recoils.

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

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.

Golf. Trying To Knock A Tiny Ball Into An Even Smaller Hole With Implements Ill Suited To The Purpose.

[much] As War Attracts Me And Fascinates My Mind With Its Tremendous Situations, I Feel More Deeply Every Year . . . What Vile And Wicked Folly And Barbarism It All Is.

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.

The Whole Of Northern Norway Was Covered With Snow To Depths Which None Of Our Soldiers Had Ever Seen, Felt, Or Imagined. There Were Neither Snow-shoes Nor Skis - Still Less Skiers. We Must Do Our Best. Thus Began This Ramshackle Campaign.

They [the Labour Party] Are Not Fit To Manage A Whelk Stall.

A Gentleman Is A Man Who Is Only Rude When He Intends To Be.

Air Power May Either End War Or End Civilization.

Courage Is What It Takes To Stand Up And Speak; Courage Is Also What It Takes To Sit Down And Listen.

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

The Fact That In Mohammedan Law Every Woman Must Belong To Some Man As His Absolute Property - Either As A Child, A Wife, Or A Concubine - Must Delay The Final Extinction Of Slavery Until The Faith Of Islam Has Ceased To Be A Great Power Among Men.

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.

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

Can A Nation Remain Healthy, Can All Nations Draw Together In A World Whose Brightest Stars Are Film Stars?

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

Now At Last The Slowly Gathered, Long-pent-up Fury Of The Storm Broke Upon Us. Four Or Five Millions Of Men Met Each Other In The First Shock Of The Most Merciless Of All The Wars Of Which Record Has Been Kept.

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.

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

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

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The Future Is Unknowable, But The Past Should Give Us Hope.

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

We Should Lay Aside Every Hindrance And Endeavour By Uniting The Whole Force And Spirit Of Our People To Raise Again A Great British Nation Standing Up Before All The World; For Such A Nation, Rising In Its Ancient Vigour, Can Even At This Hour Save Civilization.

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

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

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.

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.

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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.

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

Golf Is A Game Whose Aim Is To Hit A Very Small Ball Into An Ever Smaller Hole, With Weapons Singularly Ill-designed For The Purpose

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.

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

When Told By A Helpful Aide That His Flies Were Undone He Replied 'young Man, There Is No Harm In Leaving The Cage Door Open If The Bird Is Dead!

When A Nation Has Allowed Itself To Fall Under A Tyrannical Regime, It Cannot Be Absolved From The Faults Due To The Guilt Of That Regime.

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

Here Is A Law Which Is Above The King And Which Even He Must Not Break. This Reaffirmation Of A Supreme Law And Its Expression In A General Charter Is The Great Work Of Magna Carta; And This Alone Justifies The Respect In Which Men Have Held It

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

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

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Singapore Could Only Be Taken After A Siege By An Army Of At Least 50,000 Men. It Is Not Considered Possible That The Japanese Would Embark On Such A Mad Enterprise.

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

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

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The Poor Girl Does Not Know How To Have A Conversation. Unfortunately, She Does Know How To Speak.

Success Is Not Final, Failure Is Not Fatal: It Is The Courage To Continue That Counts.

Nothing Makes A Man More Reverent Than A Library.

No Idea Is So Outlandish That It Should Not Be Considered With A Searching But At The Same Time A Steady Eye.

The Cost Of Solving The Comet Mystery Must Be Reckoned Neither In Money Nor In Manpower.

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

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India Is A Geographical Term. It Is No More A United Nation Than The Equator.

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

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Is The Only Lesson Of History To Be That Mankind Is Unteachable?

I Like A Man Who Grins When He Fights.

I Have Consistently Urged My Friends To Abstain From Reading It.

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Victory At All Costs, Victory In Spite Of All Terror, Victory However Long And Hard The Road May Be; For Without Victory, There Is No Survival.

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

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

A Lady Came Up To Me One Day And Said 'sir! You Are Drunk', To Which I Replied 'i Am Drunk Today Madam, And Tomorrow I Shall Be Sober But You Will Still Be Ugly.

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

This Is No Time For Ease And Comfort. It Is Time To Dare And Endure.

Please Put The Ladybug Outside Without Harming Her. (to His Butler)

The Problems Of Victory Are More Agreeable Than Those Of Defeat, But They Are No Less Difficult.

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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.

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

There Are Two Things That Are More Difficult Than Making An After-dinner Speech: Climbing A Wall Which Is Leaning Toward You And Kissing A Girl Who Is Leaning Away From You.

How Dreadful Are The Curses Which Mohammedanism Lays On Its Votaries! Besides The Fanatical Frenzy, Which Is As Dangerous In A Man As Hydrophobia In A Dog, There Is This Fearful Fatalistic Apathy. Improvident Habits, Slovenly Systems Of Agriculture, Sluggish Methods Of Commerce, And Insecurity Of Property Exist Wherever The Followers Of The Prophet Rule Or Live. A Degraded Sensualism Deprives This Life Of Its Grace And Refinement; The Next Of Its Dignity And Sanctity.

There Is, Therefore, Wisdom In Reserving One's Decisions As Long As Possible And Until All The Facts And Forces That Will Be Potent At The Moment Are Revealed.

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

No Matter. The Dead Bird Does Not Leave The Nest.

Logic Is A Poor Guide Compared With Custom.

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

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.

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

We Must Recognise That We Have A Great Inheritance In Our Possession, Which Represents The Prolonged Achievement Of The Centuries; That There Is Not One Of Our Simple Uncounted Rights Today For Which Better Men Than We Are Have Not Died On The Scaffold Or The Battlefield. We Have Not Only A Great Treasure; We Have A Great Cause. Are We Taking Every Measure Within Our Power To Defend That Cause?

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

Canada Is The Linchpin Of The English-speakin G World

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

It Is Wonderful How Well Men Can Keep Secrets They Have Not Been Told.

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?'

I Had No Idea Of The Enormous And Unquestionably Helpful Part That Humbug Plays In The Social Life Of Great Peoples Dwelling In A State Of Democratic Freedom.

An American Diplomat Is Sometimes Like A Bull Who Carries His Own China Shop Around With Him.

There Is No Doubt The Charge Was An Awful Gamble And That No Normal Precautions Were Possible. The Issue As Far As I Was Concerned Had To Be Left To Fortune Or To God - Or To Whatever May Decide These Things. I Am Content And Shall Not Complain.

I Must Place On Record My Regret That The Human Race Ever Learned To Fly.

If You Have An Important Point To Make, Don't Try To Be Subtle Or Clever. Use A Pile Driver. Hit The Point Once. Then Come Back And Hit It Again. Then Hit It A Third Time - A Tremendous Whack.

If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

Never Abandon Life. There Is A Way Out Of Everything Except Death.

Great And Good Are Seldom The Same Man.

Baldwin Thought Europe Was A Bore, And Chamberlain Thought It Was Only A Greater Birmingham.

The First Quality That Is Needed Is Audacity.

Success In Life Is The Ability To Move From One Mistake To Another Without Loosing Enthusiasm.

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

I Have Never Developed Indigestion From Eating My Words.

We Must Be United, We Must Be Undaunted, We Must Be Inflexible. Our Qualities And Deeds Must Burn And Glow Through The Gloom Oeurope Until They Become The Veritable Beacon Oits Salvation.

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.

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.

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.

I Did Not Like The Man [niels Bohr] When You Showed Him To Me, With His Hair All Overhis Head.

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.

Improvident Habits, Slovenly Systems Of Agriculture, Sluggish Methods Of Commerce And Insecurity Of Property Exist Wherever The Followers Of The Prophet Rule Or Live.

Religion Of Islam

Censure Is Often Useful, Praise Is Often Deceitful.

The Arts Are Essential To Any Complete National Life. The State Owes It To Itself To Sustain And Encourage Them. [...] Ill Fares The Race Which Fails To Salute The Arts With The Reverence And Delight Which Are Their Due.

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

Men Often Stumble Onto The Truth But Then Quickly Dust Themselves Off And Hurry Away.

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

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

An Old Battleax Of A Woman Said To Winston Churchill, "if You Were My Husband I Would Put Poison In Your Tea." Churchill's Response, "ma'am If You Were My Wife I Would Drink It.

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

I Do Not See Any Other Way Of Realizing Our Hopes About World Organization In Five Or Six Days. Even The Almighty Took Seven.

It Was The Nation And The Race Dwelling All Round The Globe That Had The Lion's Heart. I Had The Luck To Be Called Upon To Give The Roar.

I Liked Wine, Both Red And White, And Especially Champagne; And On Very Special Occasions I Could Even Drink A Small Glass Of Brandy.

Socialism Is Inseparably Interwoven With Totalitarianism And The Object Worship Of The State.

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

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.

Leadership Is The Intelligent Use Of Power.

It Is Conceivable That I Might Well Be Reborn As A Chinese Coolie. In Such Case I Should Lodge A Protest.

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.

Keep Calm And Carry On.

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My Hand Seemed Arrested By A Silent Veto.

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

He Spoke With More Eloquence Than Wisdom.

The Story Of The Human Race Is War. Except For Brief And Precarious Interludes There Has Never Been Peace In The World; And Long Before History Began Murderous Strife Was Universal And Unending.

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.

There Is No Surer Method Of Economizing And Saving Money Than In The Reduction Of The Number Of Officials.

Plans Are Of Little Importance, But Planning Is Essential.

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.

Rugby Is A Hooligans Game Played By Gentlemen.

My Conclusion On Freewill And Predestination- They Are Identical.

The Air Is An Extremely Dangerous, Jealous And Exacting Mistress. Once Under The Spell Most Lovers Are Faithful To The End, Which Is Not Always Old Age. Even Those Masters And Princes Of Aerial Fighting, The Survivors Of Fifty Mortal Duels In The High Air Who Have Come Scatheless Through The War And All Its Perils, Have Returned Again And Again To Their Love And Perished Too Often In Some Ordinary Commonplace Flight Undertaken For Pure Amusement.

When You Are Going Through Hell, Keep On Going. Never Never Never Give Up.

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

A Modest Little Person, With Much To Be Modest About.

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

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

I'm Going To Make A Long Speech Because I've Not Had The Time To Prepare A Short One.

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

We Were Not Made By Nature To Work, Or Even To Play, From Eight O'clock In The Morning Till Midnight. We Ought To Break Our Days And Our Marches Into Two.

I Love Learning, But Hate Being Taught.

...the High Roads Of The Future Will Be Clear, Not Only For Us But For All, Not Only For Our Time But For A Century To Come.

All The Great Things Are Simple.

It Is Impossible To Obtain A Conviction For Sodomy From An English Jury. Half Of Them Don't Believe That It Can Physically Be Done, And The Other Half Are Doing It.

The United States Is A Land Of Free Speech. Nowhere Is Speech Freer - Not Even Here Where We Sedulously Cultivate It Even In Its Most Repulsive Form.

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.

When You Feel You Cannot Continue In Your Position For Another Minute, And All That Is In Human Power Has Been Done, That Is The Moment When The Enemy Is Most Exhausted, And When One Step Forward Will Give You The Fruits Of The Struggle You Have Borne

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

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