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How Fortunate It Was For The World That When These Great Trials Came Upon It There Was A Generation That Terror Could Not Conquer And Brutal Violence Could Not Enslave.

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How Fortunate It Was For The World That When These Great Trials Came Upon It There Was A Generation That Terror Could Not Conquer And Brutal Violence Could Not Enslave.

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

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We Shall Defend Every Village, Every Town And Every City. The Vast Mass Of London Itself, Fought Street By Street, Could Easily Devour An Entire Hostile Army; And We Would Rather See London Laid In Ruins And Ashes Than That It Should Be Tamely And Abjectly Enslaved.

Today I May Way Before An Awestruck World; I Am Still Master Of My Fate. I Am Still Captain Of My Soul.

No One Can Guarantee Success In War, But Only Deserve It.

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The English Never Draw A Line Without Blurring It.

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The Object Of Parliament Is To Substitute Argument For Fisticuffs.

Russia Is A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma.

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.

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.

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.

Watch Your Character For Your Character Is Your Destiny.

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

Working Together

Plans Are Worthless. Planning Is Priceless.

Nothing Is More Dangerous In Wartime Than To Live In The Temperamental Atmosphere Of A Gallup Poll, Always Feeling One's Pulse And Taking One's Temperature.

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

I Have In My Life Concentrated More On Self-expression Than Self-denial.

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.'

The United Nations Was Set Up Not To Get Us To Heaven, But Only To Save Us From Hell.

Too Often The Strong, Silent Man Is Silent Only Because He Does Not Know What To Say, And Is Reputed Strong Only Because He Has Remained Silent.

When They Told Me That By The Year 2100 Women Would Rule The World, My Reply Was 'still?'

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If The British Empire Is Fated To Pass From Life Into History, We Must Hope It Will Not Be By The Slow Process Of Dispersion And Decay, But In Some Supreme Exertion For Freedom, For Right And For Truth.

I Was Born Under The Blue Ridge, And Under That Side Which Is Blue In The Evening Light, In A Wild Land Of Game And Forest And Rushing Waters.

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.

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