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I Have Left The Obvious, Essential Fact To This Point, Namely, That It Is The Russian Armies Who Have Done The Main Work In Tearing The Guts Out Of The German Army. In The Air And On The Oceans We Could Maintain Our Place, But There Was No Force In The World Which Could Have Been Called Into Being, Except After Several More Years, That Would Have Been Able To Maul And Break The German Army Unless It Had Been Subjected To The Terrible Slaughter And Manhandling That Has Fallen To It Through The Strength Of The Russian Soviet Armies.

-Winston Churchill

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I Have Left The Obvious, Essential Fact To This Point, Namely, That It Is The Russian Armies Who Have Done The Main Work In Tearing The Guts Out Of The German Army. In The Air And On The Oceans We Could Maintain Our Place, But There Was No Force In The World Which Could Have Been Called Into Being, Except After Several More Years, That Would Have Been Able To Maul And Break The German Army Unless It Had Been Subjected To The Terrible Slaughter And Manhandling That Has Fallen To It Through The Strength Of The Russian Soviet Armies.

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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.

I Should Have Liked To Be Asked To Say What I Knew. They Always Tried To Ask What I Did Not Know. When I Would Have Willingly Displayed My Knowledge, They Sought To Expose My Ignorance. This Sort Of Treatment Had Only One Result: I Did Not Do Well In Examinations

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

One Time He Was Asked If He Believed In An Afterlife. After A Moment's Hesitation He Said No, That He Thought There Was Only "some Kind Of Velvety Cool Blackness," Adding Then: "of Course, I Admit I May Be Wrong. It Is Conceivable That I Might Well Be Reborn As A Chinese Coolie. In Such Case I Should Lodge A Protest."

No Two On Earth In All Things Can Agree. All Have Some Daring Singularity.

We Build Dwellings And Thereafter They Build Us.

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

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

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.

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

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