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Have Not Manet And Monet, Cézanne And Matisse, Rendered To Painting Something Of The Same Service Which Keats And Shelley Gave To Poetry After The Solemn And Ceremonious Literary Perfections Of The Eighteenth Century? They Have Brought Back To The Pictorial Art A New Draught Of Joie De Vivre; And The Beauty Of Their Work Is Instinct With Gaiety, And Floats In Sparkling Air. I Do Not Expect These Masters Would Particularly Appreciate My Defence, But I Must Avow An Increasing Attraction To Their Work.

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Have Not Manet And Monet, Cézanne And Matisse, Rendered To Painting Something Of The Same Service Which Keats And Shelley Gave To Poetry After The Solemn And Ceremonious Literary Perfections Of The Eighteenth Century? They Have Brought Back To The Pictorial Art A New Draught Of Joie De Vivre; And The Beauty Of Their Work Is Instinct With Gaiety, And Floats In Sparkling Air. I Do Not Expect These Masters Would Particularly Appreciate My Defence, But I Must Avow An Increasing Attraction To Their Work.

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They Feed The Crocodile In The Hope That He Will Eat Them Last.

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.

It Is More Agreeable To Have The Power To Give Than To Receive.

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

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

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.

Talking Death Seriously Is One Of The Tragedies Of Youth

Good And Great Are Seldom In The Same Man.

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.

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.

Eating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion.

Here Is The Answer Which I Will Give To President Roosevelt. Give Us The Tools, And We Will Finish The Job.

It Is The English-speaking Nations Who, Almost Alone, Keep Alight The Torch Of Freedom.

English Speaking

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.

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

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

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

When You Have Got A Thing Where You Want, It Is A Good Thing To Leave It Where It Is.

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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We Shall Not Flag Nor Fail. We Shall Go On To The End.

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.

One Cannot Leap A Chasm In Two Jumps.

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

If A Woman Has "it," She Doesn't Need Anything Else; But If She Doesn't Have "it," It Doesn't Matter What Else She Has.

He Who Fails To Plan Is Planning To Fail.

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

America, Can Always Be Counted Upon To Do The Right Thing In The End, Having First Exhausted The Available Alternatives.

Healthy Citizens Are The Greatest Asset Any Country Can Have.

No Compromise With The Main Purpose; No Peace Till Victory; No Pact With Unrepentant Wrong.

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.

We Must Not Lose Our Faculty To Dare, Particularly In Dark Days.

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

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

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.

It Is Always More Easy To Discover And Proclaim General Principles Than It Is To Apply Them.

There Are Two Processes Which We Adopt Consciously Or Unconsciously When We Try To Prophesy. We Can Seek A Period In The Past Whose Conditions Resemble As Closely As Possible Those Of Our Day, And Presume That The Sequel To That Period Will, Save For Some Minor Alterations, Be Similar. Secondly, We Can Survey The General Course Of Development In Our Immediate Past, And Endeavor To Prolong It Into The Near Future. The First Is The Method The Historian; The Second That Of The Scientist. Only The Second Is Open To Us Now, And This Only In A Partial Sphere.

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

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Air Power Is The Most Difficult Of Military Force To Measure Or Even Express In Precise Terms.

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

It Would Be A Great Reform In Politics If Perception Could Be Made To Spread As Easily And As Rapidly As Foolishness.

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

Hitler Knows That He Will Have To Break Us In This Island Or Lose The War. If We Can Stand Up To Him, All Europe May Be Free, And Life Of The World May Move Forward Into Broad, Sunlit Uplands. But If We Fall, Then The Whole World, Including The United States, Including All That We Have Known And Cared For, Will Sink Into The Abyss Of A New Dark Age... Let Us Therefore Brace Ourselves To Our Duties, And So Bear Ourselves That, If The British Empire And Its Commonwealth Last For A Thousand Years, Men Will Still Say, 'this Was Their Finest Hour.'

Already By 1900 I Could Boast I Had Written As Many Books As Moses.

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.

We Are Plunged In A Long And Grievous Struggle. But All Will Come Right If We All Work Together To The End.

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The Most Important Thing About Education Is Appetite.

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

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There Is No Need To Exaggerate The Part Played In The Creation Of The Bolshevism And In The Actual Bringing About Of The Russian Revolution, By These International And For The Most Part Atheistical Jews.

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

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If Britain Must Choose Between Europe And The Open Sea, She Must Always Choose The Open Sea.

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.

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

You Have Enemies? Good. That Means You've Stood Up For Something, Sometime In Your Life.

Indomitable In Retreat, Invincible In Advance; Insufferable In Victory.

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

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.'

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What A Fool I Have Been!

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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.

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Do Not Trust Any Statistics You Did Not Fake Yourself.

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

The Chief Aim Of Wisdom Is To Enable One To Bear With The Stupidity Of The Ignorant.

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.

Painting Is A Companion With Whom One May Walk A Great Part Of Life's Journey.

You Can Always Count On Americans To Do The Right Thing - After They've Tried Everything Else.

At The Depths Of That Dusty Soul There Is Nothing But Abject Surrender.

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

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It Is Not Alone That Property, In All Its Forms, Is Struck At, But That Liberty, In All Its Forms, Is Challenged By The Fundamental Conceptions Of Socialism.

If Hitler Invaded Hell I Would Make At Least A Favourable Reference To The Devil In The House Of Commons.

Lenin Was Sent Into Russia By The Germans In The Same Way That You Might Send A Phial Containing A Culture Of Typhoid Or Cholera To Be Poured Into The Water Supply Of A Great City, And It Worked With Amazing Accuracy.

We Are All Worms. However, I Like To Think I'm A Glow Worm

Free Speech Carries With It The Evil Of All Foolish, Unpleasant Venomous Things That Are Said But, On The Whole, We Would Rather Lump Them Than Do Away With Them.

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

There Comes A Special Moment In Everyone's Life, A Moment For Which That Person Was Born. That Special Opportunity, When He Seizes It, Will Fulfill His Mission - A Mission For Which He Is Uniquely Qualified. In That Moment, He Will Find Greatness. It Is His Finest Hour.

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

One Of The Most Important Signs Of The Existence Of A Democracy Is That When There Is A Knock At The Door At 5 In The Morning, One Is Completely Certain That It Is The Milkman.

Certainly The Prolonged Education Indispensable To The Progress Of Society Is Not Natural To Mankind.

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

Nobody Ever Launched An Attack Without Having Misgivings Beforehand, You Ought To Have Misgivings Before; But When The Moment Of Action Is Come, The Hour Of Misgivings Is Passed. It Is Often Not Possible To Go Backward From A Course Which Has Been Adopted In War. A Man Must Answer "aye" Or "no" To The Great Questions Which Are Put, And By That Decision He Must Be Bound.

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

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.

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

I Shall Endeavor To Marshal British Opinion Against A Course Of Action Which Would Bring In My Opinion The Greatest Evils Upon The People Of India, Upon The People Of Great Britain And Upon The British Empire Itself.

Mountaintops Inspire Leaders But Valleys Mature Them.

I Do Not Resent Criticism, Even When For The Sake Of Emphasis; It Parts For The Time With Reality.

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.

Never Flinch, Never Weary, Never Despair.

I Drink A Great Deal. I Sleep A Little, And I Smoke Cigar After Cigar. That Is Why I Am In Two-hundred-percent Form.

I Am In Favor Of Deliberately Spreading Methodically Prepared Bacteria Among People And Animals -- Mildew ... To Destroy The Harvests, Anthrax To Destroy Horses And Livestock, And The Plague, In Order To Kill Not Only Entire Armies, But Also The Inhabitants Of Large Regions.

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.

...to Win By One Is Enough.

[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.

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

If The Human Race Wishes To Have A Prolonged And Indefinite Period Of Material Prosperity, They Have Only Got To Behave In A Peaceful And Helpful Way Toward One Another.

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

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.

Maybe" When It Seems The Entire World Is Shouting "no!

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 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.

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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In The Course Of My Life, I Have Often Had To Eat My Words, And I Must Confess That I Have Always Found It A Wholesome Diet.

The Influence Exercised Over The Human Mind By Apt Analogies Is And Has Always Been Immense. Whether They Translate An Established Truth Into Simple Language Or Whether They Adventurously Aspire To Reveal The Unknown, They Are Among The Most Formidable Weapons Of The Rhetorician.

Art Is To Beauty What Honor Is To Honesty.

Neville Chamberlain Looked At Foreign Affairs Through The Wrong End Of A Municipal Drainpipe.

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.

Life Can Either Be Accepted Or Changed. If It Is Not Accepted, It Must Be Changed. If It Cannot Be Changed, Then It Must Be Accepted.

This Wicked Man Hitler, The Repository And Embodiment Of Many Forms Of Soul-destroying Hatred. This Monstrous Product Of Former Wrongs And Shame.

The Only Way A Man Can Remain Consistent Amid Changing Circumstances Is To Change With Them While Preserving The Same Dominating Purpose.

Science Should Be On Tap, Not On Top.

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

Books, In All Their Variety, Offer The Human Intellect The Means Whereby Civilisation May Be Carried Triumphantly Forward.

Nothing Is Perfect On The Human Stage.

Remember The Story Of The Spanish Prisoner. For Many Years He Was Confined In A Dungeon... One Day It Occurred To Him To Push The Door Of His Cell. It Was Open; And It Had Never Been Locked.

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

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

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

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.

Young People At Universities Study To Achieve Knowledge And Not To Learn A Trade. We Must All Learn How To Support Ourselves, But We Must Also Learn How To Live. We Need A Lot Of Engineers In The Modern World, But We Do Not Want A World Of Modern Engineers.

Gentleman, I Am Hardening On This Enterprise. I Repeat, I Am Now Hardening Towards This Enterprise.

Now At This Very Moment I Knew That The United States Was In The War, Up To The Neck And In To The Death. So We Had Won After All! ... How Long The War Would Last Or In What Fashion It Would End No Man Could Tell, Nor Did I At This Moment Care ... We Should Not Be Wiped Out. Our History Would Not Come To An End ... Hitler's Fate Was Sealed. Mussolini's Fate Was Sealed. As For The Japanese, They Would Be Ground To A Powder. All The Rest Was Merely The Proper Application Of Overwhelming Force.

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

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

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

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.

Anyone Who Is Not A Liberal In His Youth Has No Heart. Anyone Who Remains So As He Matures Has No Brain!

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

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.

I'm So Bored With It All.

[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.

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

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

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

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

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

The Trade Unions Are A Long-established And Essential Part Of Our National Life. We Take Our Stand By These Pillars Of Our British Society As It Has Gradually Developed And Evolved Itself, Of The Right Of Individual Labouring Men To Adjust Their Wages And Conditions By Collective Bargaining, Including The Right To Strike.

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

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

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.

These Are Not Dark Days: These Are Great Days - The Greatest Days Our Country Has Ever Lived.

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.

A Nation That Forgets Its Past Has No Future.

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

Perhaps It Is Better To Be Irresponsible And Right, Than To Be Responsible And Wrong.

Being Responsible

Is It Possible To Get Another Key? I Think I've Left Mine In The Room.

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.

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.

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

If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

The Reserve Of Modern Assertions Is Sometimes Pushed To Extremes, In Which The Fear Of Being Contradicted Leads The Writer To Strip Himself Of Almost All Sense And Meaning.

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

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

Do What You Like, But Like What You Do.

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.

A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing.

We Do Not War With Races Primarily As Such. Tyranny Is Our Foe. Whatever Trapping Or Disguise It Wears, Whatever Language It Speaks, Be It External Or Internal, We Must For Ever Be On Our Guard, Ever Mobilized, Ever Vigilant, Always Ready To Spring At Its Throat. In All This We March Together. Not Only Do We March And Strive Shoulder To Shoulder At This Moment, Under The Fire Of The Enemy On The Fields Of War Or In The Air, But Also In Those Realms Of Thought Which Are Consecrated To The Rights And The Dignity Of Man.

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.

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

This Is No War Of Chieftains Or Of Princes, Of Dynasties Or National Ambition; It Is A War Of Peoples And Of Causes. There Are Vast Numbers, Not Only In This Island But In Every Land, Who Will Render Faithful Service In This War, But Whose Names Will Never Be Known, Whose Deeds Will Never Be Recorded. This Is A War Of The Unknown Warriors

Writing Is An Adventure.

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.

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

Without Victory There Is No Survival!

Old Men Make War, Young Men Fight And Die

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

War Is A Game That Is Played With A Smile. If You Can't Smile, Grin. If You Can't Grin, Keep Out Of The Way Till You Can.

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