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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.

-Winston Churchill

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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.

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

I Think It Is The Most Important Subject Facing This Country, But I Cannot Get Any Of My Ministers To Take Any Notice.

There Is Not One Single Social Or Economic Principle Or Concept In The Philosophy Of The Russian Bolshevik Which Has Not Been Realized, Carried Into Action, And Enshrined In Immutable Laws A Million Years Ago By The White Ant.

A Nation That Forgets Its Past Has No Future.

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!

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

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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.

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Christmas Is A Season Not Only Of Rejoicing But Of Reflection.

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

The Turkish Government Began And Ruthlessly Carried Out The Infamous Massacre And Deportation Of Armenians In Asia Minor. The Clearance Of The Race From Asia Minor Was About As Complete As Such An Act, On A Scale So Great, Could Well Be.

There Is No Doubt That It Is Around The Family And The Home That All The Greatest Virtues, The Most Dominating Virtues Of Human Society, Are Created, Strengthened And Maintained. Having A Family Guarantees That You Have A Built In Support System, And Although That Support System May Not Always Be What You Want It To Be, When It Comes Down To The Wire, Your Family Will Love You And Stand Behind You, No Matter What.

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To Each There Comes In Their Lifetime A Special Moment When They Are Figuratively Tapped On The Shoulder And Offered The Chance To Do A Very Special Thing, Unique To Them And Fitted To Their Talents. What A Tragedy If That Moment Finds Them Unprepared Or Unqualified For That Which Could Have Been Their Finest Hour.

The World Looks With Some Awe Upon A Man Who Appears Unconcernedly Indifferent To Home, Money, Comfort, Rank, Or Even Power And Fame. The World Feels Not Without A Certain Apprehension, That Here Is Someone Outside Its Jurisdiction; Someone Before Whom Its Allurements May Be Spread In Vain; Some One Strangely Enfranchised, Untamed, Untrammelled By Convention, Moving Independent Of The Ordinary Currents Of Human Action.

Make Sure That The Beer - Four Pints A Week - Goes To The Troops Under Fire Before Any Of The Parties In The Rear Get A Drop.

Lobbyists Are The Touts Of Protected Industries.

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.

It Is No Use Doing What You Like; You Have Got To Like What You Do.

What Is Our Policy? ... To Wage War Against A Monstrous Tyranny, Never Surpassed In The Dark, Lamentable Catalogue Of Human Crime.

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Hatred Plays The Same Part In Government As Acid In Chemistry.

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

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

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.

Victory Will Never Be Found By Taking The Path Of Least Resistance.

Peace Will Not Be Preserved By Pious Sentiments.

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.

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.

Courage Is The Greatest Virtue Because It Guarantees All The Rest.

Any Clever Person Can Make Plans For Winning A War If He Has No Responsibility For Carrying Them Out.

The Enemy Is Still Proud And Powerful. He Is Hard To Get At. He Still Possesses Enormous Armies, Vast Resources, And Invaluable Strategic Territories...no One Can Tell What New Complications And Perils Might Arise In Four Or Five More Years Of War. And It Is In The Dragging-out Of The War At Enormous Expense, Until The Democracies Are Tired Or Bored Or Split That The Main Hopes Of Germany And Japan Must Reside.

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Not To Have An Adequate Air Force In The Present State Of The World Is To Compromise The Foundations Of National Freedom And Independence.

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

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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Nature Has Not Intended Mankind To Work From Eight In The Morning Until Midnight Without That Refreshment Of Blessed Oblivion Which, Even If It Only Lasts Twenty Minutes, Is Sufficient To Renew All The Vital Forces.

A Little Mouse Of Thought Appears In The Room, And Even The Mightiest Potentates Are Thrown Into Panic. They Make Frantic Efforts To Bar Our Thoughts And Words; They Are Afraid Of The Workings Of The Human Mind.

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

The Question Which We Must Ask Ourselves Is Not Whether We Like Or Do Not Like What Is Going On, But What We Are Going To Do About It.

The Power Of An Air Force Is Terrific When There Is Nothing To Oppose It.

My Ability To Persuade My Wife To Marry Me Was Quite My Most Brilliant Achievement ... Of Course, It Would Have Been Impossible For Any Ordinary Man To Have Got Through What I Had To Go Through In Peace And War Without The Devoted Aid Of What We Call, In England, One's Better Half.

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My Wife And I Tried Two Or Three Times In The Last 40 Years To Have Breakfast Together, But It Was So Disagreeable We Had To Stop.

Don't Give Your Son Money. As Far As You Can Afford It, Give Him Horses.

Nothing In Life Is So Exhilarating As To Be Shot At Without Result.

Want Of Foresight, Unwillingness To Act When Action Would Be Simple And Effective, Lack Of Clear Thinking, Confusion Of Counsel Until The Emergency Comes, Until Self-preservation Strikes Its Jarring Gong - These Are The Features Which Constitute The Endless Repetition Of History.

Without Ships, We Cannot Live.

I Myself Find Waiting More Tiring Than Action.

I Wonder Whether Any Other Generation Has Seen Such Astounding Revolutions Of Data And Values As Those Through Which We Have Lived. Scarcely Anything Material Or Established Which I Was Brought Up To Believe Was Permanent And Vital, Has Lasted. Everything I Was Sure Or Taught To Be Sure Was Impossible, Has Happened.

Old Men Make War, Young Men Fight And Die

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

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

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

A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing.

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

And What A Plan! This Vast Operation Is Undoubtedly The Most Complicated And Difficult That Has Ever Occurred.

What Is A Fine Person Or A Beauteous Face, Unless Deportment Give Them Decent Grace; Blessed With All Other Requisites To Please, To Want The Striking Elegance Of Ease; Awkward, Embarrassed, Stiff, Without The Skill Of Moving Gracefully, Or Standing Still.

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

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When You're 20 You Care What Everyone Thinks, When You're 40 You Stop Caring What Everyone Thinks, When You're 60 You Realize No One Was Ever Thinking About You In The First Place. You Have Enemies? Good. That Means You've Stood Up For Something, Sometime In Your Life.

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

Give Us The Tools, And We Will Finish The Job

I Have Taken More Out Of Alcohol Than Alcohol Has Taken Out Of Me.

Never Run Away From Anything. Never!

Double Standard

Who Is Not Liberal When Young, Does Not Have A Heart. Who Is Not Conservative When Old, Does Not Have A Brain.

We Are Really Doing Our Very Best. There Are No Doubt Many Mistakes And Shortcomings. A Lot Of Things Are Done None Too Well. Some Things That Ought To Be Done Have Not Yet Been Done...[but Britain's Effort Has] Justly Commanded The Wonder And Admiration Of Every Friendly Nation In The World.

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.

Air Superiority Is The Ultimate Expression Of Military Power.

I'd Rather Argue Against A Hundred Idiots, Than Have One Agree With Me.

The Whole History Of The World Is Summed Up In The Fact That, When Nations Are Strong, They Are Not Always Just, And When They Wish To Be Just, They Are No Longer Strong.

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

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

It Is Of No Account; After All, The Old Bird Does Not Fly Far From His Nest.

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

I Do Not Believe There Is The Slightest Chance Of War With Japan In Our Lifetime. The Japanese Are Our Allies.... Japan Is At The Other End Of The World. She Cannot Menace Our Vital Security In Any Way.... War With Japan Is Not A Possibility Which Any Reasonable Government Need Take Into Account.

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

Victory Was To Be Bought So Dear As To Be Almost Indistinguishable From Defeat.

This Beginning With Audacity, Or Being Thrown Into The Middle Of It, Is Already A Very Great Part Of The Art Of Painting.

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.

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

Thus I Got Into My Bones The Essential Structure Of The Ordinary British Sentence, Which Is A Noble Thing.

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

Painting A Picture Is Like Trying To Fight A Battle.

From The Days Of Weishaupt To Those Of Karl Marx... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilization And For The Reconstitution Of Society... Has Been Steadily Growing.

Democracy Is A Very Bad Form Of Government ... But All The Others Are So Much Worse.

There Is A Forgotten, Nay Almost Forbidden Word, Which Means More To Me Than Any Other. That Word Is England.

The Only Statistics You Can Trust Are Those You Falsified Yourself.

Building Slow Destroyers ! One Might As Well Breed Slow Race Horses.

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I Am Weary Of A Task Which Is Done And I Hope I Shall Not Shrink When The Aftermath Ends. My Only Wish Is To Live Peacefully Out The Remaining Years - If Years They Be.

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.

Money Is Like Manure, Its Only Good If You Spread It Around.

I Do Not Admit... That A Great Wrong Has Been Done To The Red Indians Of America, Or The Black People Of Australia... By The Fact That A Stronger Race, A Higher Grade Race... Has Come In And Taken Its Place.

Mr Churchill, To What Do You Attribute Your Success In Life? Conservation Of Energy. Never Stand Up When You Can Sit Down. And Never Sit Down When You Can Lie Down.

Safety And Certainty In Oil Lie In Variety, And Variety Alone.

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

Do Not Criticize Your Government When Out Of The Country. Never Cease To Do So When At Home

Air Power Can Either Paralyze The Enemy's Military Action Or Compel Him To Devote To The Defense Of His Bases And Communications A Share Of His Straitened Resources Far Greater That What We Need In The Attack.

I Have Had To Eat My Own Words Many Times, And I Have Found It A Very Nourishing Diet.

All Wisdom Is Not New Wisdom.

The British Nation Is Unique In This Respect. They Are The Only People Who Like To Be Told How Bad Things Are, Who Like To Be Told The Worst.

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

If You're Not A Liberal At Twenty You Have No Heart, If You're Not A Conservative At Forty, You Have No Brain.

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My Education Was Interrupted Only By My Schooling.

For With Primacy In Power Is Also Joined An Awe Inspiring Accountability To The Future.

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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.

It Is One Thing To See The Forward Path And Another To Be Able To Take It. But It Is Better To Have An Ambitious Plan Than None At All.

Politics Are Very Much Like War. We May Even Have To Use Poison Gas At Times.

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

Do Not Trust Any Statistics You Did Not Fake Yourself.

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If You Want A Good Argument Against Democracy, Spend Five Minutes With A Voter.

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.

Never, Ever Ever Ever Ever Give Up.

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.

I Trust And Believe That This College, This Seed That We Have Sown, Will Grow To Shelter And Nurture Generations Who May Add Most Notably To The Strength And Happiness Of Our People, And To The Knowledge And Peaceful Progress Of The World. 'the Mighty Oak From An Acorn Towers; A Tiny Seed Can Fill A Field With Flowers.'

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.

It Always Looks So Easy To Solve Problems By Taking The Line Of Least Resistance.

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

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 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.

You Ask, What Is Our Policy? I Will Say; 'it Is To Wage War, By Sea, Land And Air, With All Our Might And With All The Strength That God Can Give Us: To Wage War Against A Monstrous Tyranny, Never Surpassed In The Dark Lamentable Catalogue Of Human Crime. That Is Our Policy.' You Ask, What Is Our Aim? I Can Answer With One Word: Victory-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.

Writing Is An Adventure.

Watch Your Character For Your Character Is Your Destiny.

A Vocabulary Of Truth And Simplicity Will Be Of Service Throughout Your Life.

Soviet Union Foreign Policy Is A Puzzle Inside A Riddle Wrapped In An Enigma, And The Key Is Russian Nationalism.

There Are Bitter Weeds In England.

People Who Are Not Prepared To Do Unpopular Things And Defy The Clamor Of The Multitude Are Not Fit To Be Ministers In Time Of Difficulty.

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.

The Substitution Of The Internal Combustion Engine For The Horse Marked A Very Gloomy Milestone In The Progress Of Mankind.

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

Sunshine Is My Quest.

What Kind Of People Do They Think We Are? Is It Possible They Do Not Realize That We Shall Never Cease To Persevere Against Them Until They Have Been Taught A Lesson Which They And The World Will Never Forget?

It Is A Fine Thing To Be Honest, But It Is Also Very Important To Be Right.

You May Have To Fight When There Is No Hope Of Victory, Because It Is Better To Perish Than Live As Slaves.

Odds Against You

I'd Prefer To Be Right Than Consistent.

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

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

Civilisation Will Not Last, Freedom Will Not Survive, Peace Will Not Be Kept, Unless A Very Large Majority Of Mankind Unite Together To Defend Them And Show Themselves Possessed Of A Constabulary Power Before Which Barbaric And Atavistic Forces Will Stand In Awe.

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.

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

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

With Opportunity Comes Responsibility.

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

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

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

My Most Brilliant Achievement Was My Ability To Be Able To Persuade My Wife To Marry Me.

In Franklin Roosevelt There Died The Greatest American Friend We Have Ever Known - And The Greatest Champion Of Freedom Who Has Ever Brought Help And Comfort From The New World To The Old.

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

After A Time, Civil Servants Tend To Become No Longer Servants And No Longer Civil.

I Will Begin By Saying What Everybody Would Like To Ignore Or Forget... We Have Sustained A Total And Unmitigated Defeat... All Is Over. Silent, Mournful, Abandoned, Broken, Czechoslovakia Recedes Into The Darkness... We Are In The Presence Of A Disaster Of The First Magnitude Which Has Befallen Great Britain And France. Do Not Let Us Blind Ourselves To That... Do Not Suppose That This Is The End. This Is Only The Beginning Of The Reckoning.

If Europe Were Once United In The Sharing Of Its Common Inheritance There Would Be No Limit To The Happiness, The Prosperity, And The Glory Which Its Three Or Four Million People Would Enjoy.

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.

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

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

My Conclusion On Freewill And Predestination- They Are Identical.

When I Warned Them [the French] That Britain Would Fight On Alone Whatever They Did, Their Generals Told Their Prime Minister And His Divided Cabinet, In Three Weeks England Will Have Her Neck Wrung Like A Chicken. Some Chicken! Some Neck!

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

They Had Bombed London, Whether On Purpose Or Not, And The British People And London Especially Should Know That We Could Hit Back. It Would Be Good For The Morale Of Us All.

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.

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

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