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Hope Has Returned To The Hearts Of Scores Of Millions Of Men And Women, And With That Hope There Burns The Flame Of Anger Against The Brutal, Corrupt Invader ... In A Dozen Famous Ancient States Now Prostrate Under The Nazi Yoke, The Masses Of The People ... Await The Hour Of Liberation ... That Hour Will Strike, And Its Solemn Peal Will Proclaim That The Night Is Past And That The Dawn Has Come.

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Hope Has Returned To The Hearts Of Scores Of Millions Of Men And Women, And With That Hope There Burns The Flame Of Anger Against The Brutal, Corrupt Invader ... In A Dozen Famous Ancient States Now Prostrate Under The Nazi Yoke, The Masses Of The People ... Await The Hour Of Liberation ... That Hour Will Strike, And Its Solemn Peal Will Proclaim That The Night Is Past And That The Dawn Has Come.

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I Am Not Sure I Should Have Dared To Start; But I Am Sure That I Should Not Have Dared To Stop.

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There Is No Such Thing As Public Opinion. There Is Only Published Opinion.

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.

May There Not Be Methods Of Using Explosive Energy Incomparably More Intense Than Anything Heretofore Discovered? Might Not A Bomb No Bigger Than An Orange Be Found To Possess A Secret Power To Destroy A Whole Block Of Buildings-nay, To Concentrate The Force Of A Thousand Tons Of Cordite And Blast A Township At A Stroke? Could Not Explosives Even Of The Existing Type Be Guided Automatically In Flying Machines By Wireless Or Other Rays, Without A Human Pilot, In Ceaseless Procession Upon A Hostile City, Arsenal, Camp Or Dockyard?

Decided Only To Be Undecided, Resolved To Be Irresolute, Adamant For Drift, Solid For Fluidity, All-powerful To Be Impotent.

I Cannot Help Reflecting That If My Father Had Been American And My Mother British Instead Of The Other Way Around, I Might Have Gotten Here On My Own.

We Have No Lasting Friends, No Lasting Enemies, Only Lasting Interests.

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

Solitary Trees, If They Grow At All, Grow Strong.

I Cannot Forecast To You The Action Of Russia. It Is A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma: But Perhaps There Is A Key. That Key Is Russian National Interest.

No Matter How Enmeshed A Commander Becomes In The Elaboration Of His Own Thoughts, It Is Sometimes Necessary To Take The Enemy Into Account.

May It Not Also Be That The Cause Of Civilization Itself Will Be Defended By The Skill And Devotion Of A Few Thousand Airmen? There Never Has Been, I Suppose, In All The World, In All The History Of War, Such An Opportunity For Youth. The Knights Of The Round Table, The Crusaders, All Fall Back Into The Past.

Without Tradition, Art Is A Flock Of Sheep Without A Shepherd. Without Innovation, It Is A Corpse.

It Is Always Wise To Look Ahead, But Difficult To Look Further Than You Can See.

By Being So Long In The Lowest Form [at Harrow] I Gained An Immense Advantage Over The Cleverer Boys. . . . I Got Into My Bones The Essential Structure Of The Ordinary British Sentence - Which Is A Noble Thing. Naturally I Am Biased In Favor Of Boys Learning English; I Would Make Them All Learn English: And Then I Would Let The Clever Ones Learn Latin As An Honor, And Greek As A Treat.

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

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.

All The Great Things Are Simple.

It Is Remarkable That Lord Esher Should Be So Much Astray...we Must Conclude That An Uncontrollable Fondness For Fiction Forbade Him To Forsake It For Fact. Such Constancy Is A Defect In An Historian.

Give Us The Tools, And We Will Finish The Job

I Am Too Busy. I Have Not Time For Worry.

Woe Betide The Leaders Now Perched On Their Dizzy Pinnacles Of Triumph If They Cast Away At The Conference Table What The Soldiers Had Won On A Hundred Bloodsoaked Battlefields.

... I Think It Would Be So Much Better For Me To Learn Something Which Would Be Useful To Me In The Army, As Well As Affording Me Exercise And Amusement.

All Wisdom Is Not New Wisdom.

The Positive Thinker Sees The Invisible, Feels The Intangible, And Achieves The Impossible.

Doubts Could Be Swept Away Only By Deeds.

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

[the Politician] Is Asked To Stand, He Wants To Sit, And He Is Expected To Lie.

The Person Must Be Blind, Indeed, Who Can Not See, That Here On Earth A Great Project, A Great Plan, Is Executed, May Work On The Realization Of Which We Participate As Faithful Servants.

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War, Which Used To Be Cruel And Magnificent Has Now Become Cruel And Squalid.

We Make Our Buildings, And Then Our Buildings Make And Shape Us.

If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

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

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A Good Speech Should Be Like A Woman's Skirt: Long Enough To Cover The Subject And Short Enough To Create Interest

An Efficient And A Successful Administration Manifests Itself Equally In Small As In Great Matters.

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.

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

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

In War, Truth Is Often The First Casualty.

I Accumulated In Those Years So Fine A Surplus In The Book Of Observance That I Have Been Drawing Confidently Upon It Ever Since.

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 Like A Man Who Grins When He Fights.

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

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

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Let Our Advance Worrying Become Advance Thinking And Planning.

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

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If We Could Get Out Of This Jam By Giving Up Malta And Gibraltar And Some African Colonies I Would Jump At It. But The Only Safe Way Is To Convince Hitler That He Cannot Beat Us.

Here Was A Place Where Real Things Were Going On. Here Was A Scene Of Vital Action. Here Was A Place Where Anything Might Happen. Here Was A Place Where Something Would Certainly Happen. Here I Might Leave My Bones.

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

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.

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I Have Found In My Experience Of War, That Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Invaluable.

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If You Put Two Economists Xin A Room, You Get Two Opinions, Unless One Of Them Is Lord Keynes, In Which Case You Get Three Opinions.

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.

The Only Thing That Ever Really Frightened Me During The War Was The U-boat Peril...it Did Not Take The Form Of Flaring Battles And Glittering Achievements, It Manifested Itself Through Statistics, Diagrams, And Curves Unknown To The Nation, Incomprehensible To The Public.

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The Malice Of The Wicked Was Reinforced By The Weakness Of The Virtuous.

War Is Horrible, But Slavery Is Worse.

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This Movement Among The Jews Is Not New... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilisation And For The Reconstitution Of Society On The Basis Of Arrested Development, Of Envious Malevolence, And Impossible Equality, Has Been Steadily Growing... It Has Been The Mainspring Of Every Subversive Movement During The Nineteenth Century.

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Success Comes From Continuing To Strive, Fail And Learn Without Losing Enthusiasm.

When You Have To Kill A Man, It Costs Nothing To Be Polite.

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.

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

Of All The Small Nations Of This Earth, Perhaps Only The Ancient Greeks Surpass The Scots In Their Contribution To Mankind.

Do Not Let Spacious Plans For A New World Divert Your Energies From Saving What Is Left Of The Old.

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

You Must Understand That This War Is Not Against Hitler Or National Socialism, But Against The Strength Of The German People, Which Is To Be Smashed Once And For All, Regardless Of Whether It Is In The Hands Of Hitler Or A Jesuit Priest.

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

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

Christopher Columbus Was The First Socialist: He Didn't Know Where He Was Going, He Didn?t Know Where He Was? And He Did It All At Taxpayers Expense.

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.

That Long (canadian) Frontier From The Atlantic To The Pacific Ocean, Guarded Only By Neighbourly Respect And Honourable Obligations, As An Example To Every Country And A Pattern For The Future Of The World.

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.

Remember Gentleman, It's Not Just France We're Fighting For, It's Champagne!

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.

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.

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

It Is Better To Do The Wrong Thing That To Do Nothing.

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

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

I'd Prefer To Be Right Than Consistent.

Are You An Action-oriented, Take-charge Person Interested In Exciting New Challenges? As Director Of A Major Public-sector Organization, You Will Manage A Large Armed Division And Interface With Other Senior Executives In A Team-oriented, Multinational Initiative In The Global Marketplace. Successful Candidate Will Have Above-average Oral-presentation Skills

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

A Single Glass Of Champagne Imparts A Feeling Of Exhilaration. The Nerves Are Braced; The Imagination Is Stirred, The Wits Become More Nimble.

Champagne Drinking

The Gratitude Of Every Home In Our Island, In Our Empire, And Indeed Throughout The World, Except In The Abodes Of The Guilty, Goes Out To The British Airmen Who, Undaunted By Odds, Unwearied In Their Constant Challenge And Mortal Danger, Are Turning The Tide Of The World War By Their Prowess And By Their Devotion. Never In The Field Of Human Conflict Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few.

The Power Of The Executive To Cast A Man Into Prison Without Formulating Any Charge Known To The Law And Particularly To Deny Him The Judgement Of His Peers Is In The Highest Degree Odious And Is The Foundation Of All Totalitarian Government Whether Nazi Or Communist.

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

The Aryan Stock Is Bound To Triumph.

We Are Waiting For The Long-promised Invasion. So Are The Fishes.

Renown Awaits The Commander Who First Restores Artillery To Its Prime Importance On The Battlefield.

I Have Not Become The Kings First Minister In Order To Preside Over The Liquidation Of The British Empire.

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

Hope Has Returned To The Hearts Of Scores Of Millions Of Men And Women, And With That Hope There Burns The Flame Of Anger Against The Brutal, Corrupt Invader ... In A Dozen Famous Ancient States Now Prostrate Under The Nazi Yoke, The Masses Of The People ... Await The Hour Of Liberation ... That Hour Will Strike, And Its Solemn Peal Will Proclaim That The Night Is Past And That The Dawn Has Come.

Little Did We Guess That What Has Been Called The Century Of The Common Man Would Witness As Its Outstanding Feature More Common Men Killing Each Other With Greater Facilities Than Any Other Five Centuries Together In The History Of The World.

Success Is Never Final.

Congratulations

Men Will Forgive A Man Anything Except Bad Prose.

A Heightened Sense Of The Observation Of Nature Is One Of The Chief Delights That Have Come To Me Through Trying To Paint.

Danger, If Met Head On, Can Be Nearly Halved

My Hand Seemed Arrested By A Silent Veto.

Success Consists Of Going From Failure To Failure Without Loss Of Enthusiasm.

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

Like Other Systems In Decay, The Roman Empire Continued To Function For Several Generations After Its Vitality Was Sapped. For Nearly A Hundred Years Our Island Was One Of The Scenes Of Conflict Between A Dying Civilisation And Lusty, Famishing Barbarism.

To Improve Is To Change.

I No Longer Listen To What People Say, I Just Watch What They Do. Behavior Never Lies.

Unpunctuality Is A Vile Habit.

These, Gentlemen, Are The Opinions Upon Which I Base My Facts.

I Am Fond Of Pigs. Dogs Look Up To Us. Cats Look Down On Us. Pigs Treat Us As Equals.

I Am Not A Bit Afraid Of Siegfried Sassoon. That Man Can Think. I Am Afraid Only Of People Who Cannot Think.

Every Garden Presents Innumerable Fascinating Problems.

When One Is In Office One Has No Idea How Damnable Things Can Feel To The Ordinary Rank And File Of The Public.

I Get My Exercise Being A Pallbearer For Those Of My Friends Who Believed In Regular Running And Calisthenics.

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

Keep Calm And Carry On.

Keep Calm And Carry On

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

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.

Before The War It Had Seemed Incredible That Such Terrors And Slaughters, Even If They Began, Could Last More Than A Few Months. After The First Two Years It Was Difficult To Believe That They Would Ever End.

We Are Asking The Nations Of Europe Between Whom Rivers Of Blood Have Flowed, To Forget The Feuds Of A Thousand Years And Work For The Larger Harmonies On Which The Future Depends.

So Long As I Am Acting From Duty And Conviction, I Am Indifferent To Taunts And Jeers. I Think They Will Probably Do Me More Good Than Harm.

Do What You Like, But Like What You Do.

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

Being Responsible

This Fulfils My Ambition. I Still Have My Father's Robe As Chancellor. I Shall Be Proud To Serve You In This Splendid Office.

It Is No Use Saying, 'we Are Doing Our Best.' You Have Got To Succeed In Doing What Is Necessary.

Politics Is Like Waking Up In The Morning. You Never Know Whose Head You'll Find On The Pillow.

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.

A Man Who Gets The Reputation Of Rising At Dawn Can Sleep To Noon.

Success Is The Ability To Continue To Move Through Total Disaster.

How I Hated This School, And What A Life Of Anxiety I Lived There For More Than Two Years.

When Great Causes Are On The Move In The World, Stirring All Men's Souls, Drawing Them From Their Firesides, Casting Aside Comfort, Wealth And The Pursuit Of Happiness In Response To Impulses At Once Awe-striking And Irresistible, We Learn That We Are Spirits, Not Animals.

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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.

It Is Sheer Laziness Not Compressing Thought Into A Reasonable Space.

The Oldest Habit In The World For Resisting Change Is To Complain That Unless The Remedy To The Disease Should Be Universally Applied It Should Not Be Applied At All. But You Must Start Somewhere.

"i Hope, Sir, That I Will Shoot Your Picture On Your Hundredth Birthday." I Don't See Why Not, Young Man. You Look Reasonably Fit And Healthy.

Eating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion.

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

With The End Of The Victorian Era, We Passed Into What I Feel I Must Call The Terrible 20th Century

I Had A Feeling Once About Mathematics - That I Saw It All. Depth Beyond Depth Was Revealed To Me - The Byss And Abyss. I Saw - As One Might See The Transit Of Venus Or Even The Lord Mayor's Show - A Quantity Passing Through Infinity And Changing Its Sign From Plus To Minus. I Saw Exactly Why It Happened And Why The Tergiversation Was Inevitable But It Was After Dinner And I Let It Go.

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

The Maxim, "nothing Prevails But Perfection," May Be Spelled Paralysis.

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

Dear Citizen, If You Were My Love, I'd Stole Your Money!' Admin If You Were My Love, I Would Ask You For Divorce And Spousal Support!

The First Duty Of A University Is To Teach Wisdom, Not Trade; Character, Not Technicalities.

It Is A Fine Game To Play - The Game Of Politics - And It Is Well Worth Waiting For A Good Hand Before Really Plunging.

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

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

Plans Are Worthless. Planning Is Priceless.

There But For The Grace Of God, Goes God.

We Shall Defend Our Island, Whatever The Cost May Be, We Shall Fight On The Beaches, We Shall Fight On The Landing Grounds, We Shall Fight In The Fields And In The Streets, We Shall Fight In The Hills; We Shall Never Surrender.

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

Delight In Smooth Sounding Platitudes, Refusal To Face Unpleasant Facts ... Genuine Love Of Peace And Pathetic Belief That Love Can Be Its Sole Foundation ... The Utter Devotion Of The Liberals To Sentiment Apart From Reality ...though Free From Wickedness Or Evil Design, Played A Definite Part In The Unleashing Upon The World Of Horrors And Miseries [wwii]

The Statesman Who Yields To War Fever Must Realise That Once The Signal Is Given, He Is No Longer The Master Of Policy But The Slave Of Unforeseeable And Uncontrollable Events.

It Is A Curious Fact About British Islanders, Who Hate Drill And Have Not Been Invaded For Nearly A Thousand Years, That As Danger Comes Nearer And Grows They Become Progressively Less Nervous; When It Is Imminent The Are Fierce, When It Is Mortal They Are Fearless.

One Evening At Chequers The Film Was Oliver Twist. Rufus, As Usual, Had The Best Seat In The House, On His Master's Lap. At The Point When Bill Sikes Was About To Drown His Dog To Put The Police Off His Track, Churchill Covered Rufus's Eyes With His Hand. He Said, "don't Look Now, Dear. I'll Tell You About It Afterwards."

There Is No Purpose In Living Where There Is Nothing To Do.

What A Fool I Have Been!

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

However Beautiful The Strategy, You Should Occasionally Look At The Results.

It Is My Belief, You Cannot Deal With The Most Serious Things In The World Unless You Understand The Most Amusing.

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

Unless We Establish Some Form Of World Government, It Will Not Be Possible For Us To Avert A World War Iii In The Future.

World Government

You See These Dictators Up On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police. They're Afraid Of Words And Thought. ... They Make Frantic Efforts To Bar Our Thoughts And Words. ... A State Of Society Where Men May Not Speak Their Mind - Where Children Denounce Their Parents To The Police - Where A Businessman Or Small Shopkeeper Ruins His Competitor By Telling Tales About His Private Opinion. Such A State Of Society Cannot Long Endure If It Is Continually In Contact With The Healthy Outside World.

They Have Done What They Like. Their Difficulty Is To Like What They Have Done.

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.

A Love Of Tradition Has Never Weakened A Nation.

I Would Say To The House, As I Said To Those Who Have Joined This Government: I Have Nothing To Offer But Blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat.

Our Inheritance Of Well-founded, Slowly Conceived Codes Of Honor, Morals And Manners, The Passionate Convictions Which So Many Hundreds Of Millions Share Together Of The Principles Of Freedom And Justice, Are Far More Precious To Us Than Anything Which Scientific Discoveries Could Bestow.

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