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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.'

-Winston Churchill

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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.'

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You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along.

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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.

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Sure I Am Of This, That You Have Only To Endure To Conquer. You Have Only To Persevere To Save Yourselves, And To Save All Those Who Rely Upon You. You Have Only To Go Right On, And At The End Of The Road, Be It Short Or Long, Victory And Honor Will Be Found.

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

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Advertising Nourishes The Consuming Power Of Men.

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Don't Interrupt Me While I'm Interrupting.

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I Thought Of A Remark . . . That The United States Is Like A 'gigantic Boiler. Once The Fire Is Lighted Under It There Is No Limit To The Power It Can Generate.' Being Saturated And Satiated With Emotion And Sensation, I Went To Bed And Slept The Sleep Of The Saved And Thankful.

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.

You Must Sleep Sometime Between Lunch And Dinner, And No Halfway Measures. Take Off Your Clothes And Get Into Bed. That's What I Always Do.

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