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Here Churchill Repeats With Approval A Statement He Had First Made In January, 1930 "at A Meeting At The Cannon Street Hotel." "sooner Or Later You Will Have To Crush Gandhi And The Indian Congress And All They Stand For."

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Here Churchill Repeats With Approval A Statement He Had First Made In January, 1930 "at A Meeting At The Cannon Street Hotel." "sooner Or Later You Will Have To Crush Gandhi And The Indian Congress And All They Stand For."

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We See Nothing But Good And Hope In A Richer, Freer, More Contented European Commonalty. But We Have Our Own Dreams And Our Own Task. We Are With Europe, But Not Of It. We Are Linked, But Not Comprised. We Are Interested And Associated, But Not Absorbed.

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The Eagle Has Ceased To Scream, But The Parrots Will Now Begin To Chatter. The War Of The Giants Is Over And The Pigmies Will Now Start To Squabble.

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

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I Propose That 100,000 Degenerate Britons Should Be Forcibly Sterilized And Others Put In Labour Camps To Halt The Decline Of The British Race.

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

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

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

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Kites Rise Highest Against The Wind - Not With It.

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

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The Best Argument Against Democracy Is A Five-minute Conversation With The Average Voter.

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I Have Never Promised Anything But Blood, Tears, Toil And Sweat. Now, However We Have A New Experience. We Have A Victory - A Remarkable And Definite Victory. The Bright Gleam Has Caught The Helmets Of Our Soldiers And Warmed And Cheered All Our Hearts.

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

We Are Stripped Bare By The Curse Of Plenty. [referring To The Theory That Over-production Caused The Depression]

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

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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 ... Try It If You Have Not Done So - Before You Die.

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Apt Analogies Are Among The Most Formidable Weapons Of The Rhetorician.

Nothing Is More Costly, Nothing Is More Sterile, Than Vengeance.

Nature Will Not Be Admired By Proxy.

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

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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.

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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.

Criticism Is Easy; Achievement Is Difficult.

From Stettin In The Baltic To Trieste In The Adriatic, An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across The Continent.

I Expect You Will Find That Change Is The Best Kind Of Rest.

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The Facilities For Advanced Education Must Be Evened Out And Multiplied. No One Who Can Take Advantage Of A Higher Education Should Be Denied This Chance. You Cannot Conduct A Modern Community Except With An Adequate Supply Of Persons Upon Whose Education, Whether Humane, Technical, Or Scientific, Much Time And Money Have Been Spent.

The Person Of Truth Must Be Covered With Bodyguards Of Lies.

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

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 Always Ready To Learn Although I Do Not Always Like Being Taught.

Some Civil Servants Are Neither Servants Nor Civil.

There Comes A Precious Moment In All Of Our Lives When We Are Tapped On The Shoulder And Offered The Opportunity To Do Something Very Special That Is Unique To Us And Our Abilities, What A Tragedy It Would Be If We Are Not Ready Or Willing.

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.

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

Politics Is More Dangerous Than War, For In War You Are Only Killed Once.

The Almighty In His Infinite Wisdom Did Not See Fit To Create Frenchmen In The Image Of Englishmen.

You Must Be Prepared For Further Efforts Of Mind And Body And Further Sacrifices To Great Causes, If You Are Not To Fall Back Into The Rut If Inertia, The Confusion Of Aim And The Craven Fear Of Being Great.

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

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Hess Or No Hess, I'm Going To Watch The Marx Brothers.

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

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

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I Do Not Wonder That British Youth Is In Revolt Against The Morbid Doctrine That Nothing Matters But The Equal Sharing Of Miseries; That What Used To Be Called The Submerged Tenth Can Only Be Rescued By Bringing The Other Nine-tenths Down To Their Le.

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

I Will Not Pretend That If I Had To Choose Between Communism And Nazism I Would Choose Communism.

No One Saves Us But Ourselves. No One Can And No One May. We Ourselves Must Walk The Path. Some Of Us Think Holding On Makes Us Strong; But Sometimes It Is Letting Go. Continuous Effort - Not Strength Or Intelligence - Is The Key To Unlocking Our Potential.

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.

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Life Is A Test And This World A Place Of Trial.

How Little Can We Foresee The Consequences Either Of Wise Or Unwise Action, Of Virtue Or Of Malice. Without This Measureless And Perpetual Uncertainty, The Drama Of Human Life Would Be Destroyed.

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

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.

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You Must Put Your Head Into The Lion's Mouth If The Performance Is To Be A Success.

Great Success Always Comes At The Risk Of Enormous Failure.

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.

If The Almighty Were To Rebuild The World And Asked Me For Advice, I Would Have English Channels Round Every Country. And The Atmosphere Would Be Such That Anything Which Attempted To Fly Would Be Set On Fire.

I Let The Argument Rip Healthily Between The Departments. This Is A Very Good Way To Finding Out The Truth.

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Which Brings Me To My Conclusion Upon Free Will And Predestination, Namely - Let The Reader Mark It - That They Are Identical.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I'd Rather Spend Half An Hour In The Company Of A Top Carpenter, Than Three Hours In The Company Of An Average Brain Surgeon

Canada Is The Linchpin Of The English-speakin G World

We Shall Draw From The Heart Of Suffering Itself The Means Of Inspiration And Survival.

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

I Am A Child Of The House Of Commons. I Was Brought Up In My Fathers House To Believe In Democracy. Trust The Peoplethat Was His Message.

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.

Never Run Away From Anything. Never!

Double Standard

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

Never Trust A Man Who Has Not A Single Redeeming Vice.

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 A Fateful Fatalistic Apathy.

I Am An Optimist. It Does Not Seem Too Much Use Being Anything Else.

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

The Unnatural And Increasingly Rapid Growth Of The Feeble-minded And Insane Classes, Coupled As It Is With Steady Restriction Among All The Thrifty, Energetic And Superior Stocks Constitutes A National And Race Danger Which Is Impossible To Exaggerate. I Feel That The Source From Which The Stream Of Madness Is Fed Should Be Cut Off And Sealed Before Another Year Has Passed.

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.

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.

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

A Hopeful Disposition Is Not The Sole Qualification To Be A Prophet.

The Test Of A People Is What They Can Do When They're Tired.

In Wartime, Truth Is So Precious That She Should Always Be Attended By A Bodyguard Of Lies.

The Most Important Thing About Education Is Appetite.

Churchill Says The Government Had To Choose Between War And Shame. They Chose Shame. They Will Get War, Too.

When I Look Back On All These Worries, I Remember The Story Of The Old Man Who Said On His Deathbed That He Had Had A Lot Of Trouble In His Life, Most Of Which Had Never Happened

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What Is Adequacy? Adequacy Is No Standard At All.

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

I Love Learning, But Hate Being Taught.

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

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

One Ought To Be Just Before One Is Generous

Cannot Possibly Attend First Night, Will Attend Second... If There Is One.

The Game Of Life Does Not Proceed Like A Mathematical Calculation On The Principle That Two And Two Make Four. Sometimes They Make Five, Or Minus Four, And Sometimes The Blackboard Topples Over In The Middle Of The Sum And The Pedagogue Is Left With A Black Eye.

The Jury System Has Come To Stand For All We Mean By English Justice. The Scrutiny Of 12 Honest Jurors Provides Defendants And Plaintiffs Alike A Safeguard From Arbitrary Perversion Of The Law.

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

The Chinese Said Of Themselves Several Thousand Years Ago: China Is A Sea That Salts All The Waters That Flow Into It. Theres Another Chinese Saying About Their Country Which Is Much More Modernit Dates Only From The Fourth Century. This Is The Saying: The Tail Of China Is Large And Will Not Be Wagged. I Like That One. The British Democracy Approves The Principles Of Movable Party Heads And Unwaggable National Tails. It Is Due To The Working Of These Important Forces That I Have The Honour To Be Addressing You At This Moment.

All Babies Look Like Me. But Then, I Look Like All Babies.

For The First Time I Heard Shots Fired In Anger, Heard Bullets Strike Flesh Or Whistle Through The Air.

There Is No Such Thing As A Good Tax.

I Am Reminded Of The Professor Who, In His Declining Hours, Was Asked By His Devoted Pupils For His Final Counsel. He Replied, 'verify Your Quotations.

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

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.

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

There Must Not Be Lacking In Our Leadership Something Of That Spirit Of The Austrian Corporal Who, When All Had Fallen Into Ruins Around Him, And When Germany Seemed To Have Fallen Into Chaos, Did Not Hesitate To March Forth Against The Vast Army Of Victorious Nations And Has Already Turned The Tables Decisively Against Them.

To Improve Is To Change.

At One Side Of The Palette There Is White, At The Other Black; And Neither Is Ever Used Neat.

The Only Traditions Of The Royal Navy Are Rum, Sodomy And The Lash.

What Is The True And Original Root Of Dutch Aversion To British Rule? It Is The Abiding Fear And Hatred Of The Movement That Seeks To Place The Native On A Level With The White Man ... The Kaffir Is To Be Declared The Brother Of The European, To Be Constituted His Legal Equal, To Be Armed With Political Rights.

If You Are Going Through Hell Just Keep Going

No More Let Us Alter Or Falter Or Palter. From Malta To Yalta, And Yalta To Malta.

War Is Mainly A Catalogue Of Blunders.

Success Is Never Final.

Congratulations

An Extra Yawn One Morning In The Springtime, An Extra Snooze One Night In The Autumn Is All That We Ask In Return For Dazzling Gifts. We Borrow An Hour One Night In April; We Pay It Back With Golden Interest Five Months Later.

Politics Is Not A Game. It Is An Earnest Business.

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

Attitude Is A Little Thing That Makes A Big Difference.

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

Nobody Wants To Intervene In Russian Affairs. Russia Is A Very Large Country, A Very Old Country, A Very Disagreeable Country Inhabited By Immense Numbers Of Ignorant People Largely Possessed Of Lethal Weapons And In A State Of Extreme Disorder. Also Russia Is A Long Way Off.

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

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

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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