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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.'

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I Trust And Believe

Winston Churchill

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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.'

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History Will Be Kind To Me For I Intend To Write It.

History With Its Flickering Lamp Stumbles Along The Trail Of The Past, Trying To Reconstruct Its Scenes, To Revive Its Echoes, And Kindle With Pale Gleams The Passion Of Former Days.

Happy Are The Painters, For They Shall Not Be Lonely. Light And Colour, Peace And Hope, Will Keep Them Company To The End Of The Day.

The End Of The Day

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

If You Cannot Read All Your Books...fondle Them---peer Into Them, Let Them Fall Open Where They Will, Read From The First Sentence That Arrests The Eye, Set Them Back On The Shelves With Your Own Hands, Arrange Them On Your Own Plan So That You At Least Know Where They Are. Let Them Be Your Friends; Let Them, At Any Rate, Be Your Acquaintances.

For My Part, I Consider That It Will Be Found Much Better By All Parties To Leave The Past To History, Especially As I Propose To Write That History Myself.

The Opposition Occupies The Benches In Front Of You, But The Enemy Sits Behind You

I Never Slept As Soundly As The Night Following Pearl Harbor. For I Knew That The American Race Would Now Be Entering The War And It Would Never Be The Same.

Never Abandon Life. There Is A Way Out Of Everything Except Death.

I Am Sorry To Have Made Such A Long Speech, But I Did Not Have Time To Write A Shorter One.

We Shall Defend Our Island Whatever The Cost May Be; We Shall Fight On Beaches, Landing Grounds, In Fields, In Streets And On The Hills. We Shall Never Surrender And Even If, Which I Do Not For The Moment Believe, This Island Or A Large Part Of It Were Subjugated And Starving, Then Our Empire Beyond The Seas, Armed And Guarded By The British Fleet, Will Carry On The Struggle Until In God's Good Time The New World With All Its Power And Might, Sets Forth To The Liberation And Rescue Of The Old.

Anyone Who Is Not A Liberal In His Youth Has No Heart. Anyone Who Remains So As He Matures Has No Brain!

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.'

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

Do Not Turn The Superior Eye Of Critical Passivity Upon These Efforts .... We Must Not Be Ambitious. We Cannot Aspire To Masterpieces. We May Content Ourselves With A Joy Ride In A Paint-box.

There Is No Worse Mistake In Public Leadership Than To Hold Out False Hopes Soon To Be Swept Away. The British People Can Face Peril Or Misfortune With Fortitude And Buoyancy, But They Bitterly Resent Being Deceived Or Finding That Those Responsible For Their Affairs Are Themselves Dwelling In A Fool's Paradise.

The Salvation Of The Common People Of Every Race And Of Every Land From War Or Servitude Must Be Established On Solid Foundations And Must Be Guarded By The Readiness Of All Men And Women To Die Rather Than Submit To Tyranny.

To Jaw-jaw Is Always Better Than To War-war.

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

He [president Franklin D. Roosevelt] Died In Harness, And We May Well Say In Battle Harness, Like His Soldiers, Sailors And Airmen Who Died Side By Side With Ours And Carrying Out Their Tasks To The End All Over The World. What An Enviable Death Was His.

We Shall Escape The Absurdity Of Growing A Whole Chicken In Order To Eat The Breast Or Wing, By Growing These Parts Separately Under A Suitable Medium.

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

Some Civil Servants Are Neither Servants Nor Civil.

The Shortest Road To Ruin Is To Emulate The Methods Of Your Adversary.

They [the Labour Party] Are Not Fit To Manage A Whelk Stall.

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]

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

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.

In Russia A Man Is Called Reactionary If He Objects To Having His Property Stolen And His Wife And Children Murdered.

Always Remember, However Sure You Are That You Could Easily Win, That There Would Not Be A War If The Other Man Did Not Think He Also Had A Chance.

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

Beware Of Driving Men To Desperation. Even A Cornered Rat Is Dangerous.

One Ought Never To Turn One's Back On A Threatened Danger And Try To Run Away From It. If You Do That, You Will Double The Danger. But If You Meet It Promptly And Without Flinching, You Will Reduce The Danger By Half. Never Run Away From Anything. Never!

Double Standard

Time Is One Thing That Can Never Be Retrieved. One May Lose And Regain Friends. One May Lose And Regain Money. Opportunity, Once Spurned, May Come Again. But The Hours That Are Lost In Idleness Can Never Be Brought Back To Be Used In Gainful Pursuits

Time Management

The Turkish Government Began And Ruthlessly Carried Out The Infamous Massacre And Deportation Of Armenians In Asia Minor. The Clearance Of The Race From Asia Minor Was About As Complete As Such An Act, On A Scale So Great, Could Well Be.

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.

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

God For A Month Of Power & A Good Shorthand Writer.

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 This Fearful Fatalistic Apathy. Improvident Habits, Slovenly Systems Of Agriculture, Sluggish Methods Of Commerce, And Insecurity Of Property Exist Wherever The Followers Of The Prophet Rule Or Live. A Degraded Sensualism Deprives This Life Of Its Grace And Refinement; The Next Of Its Dignity And Sanctity.

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

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.

India Is A Geographical Term. It Is No More A United Nation Than The Equator.

Perfecting And Selling Your Writing Is A Lifelong Task. If You Are A Persistent Writer, You Can Expect Your Abilities To Improve With Time. Success Is The Ability To Go From Failure To Failure Without Losing Your Enthusiasm.

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

A Fanatic Is One Who Can't Change His Mind And Won't Change The Subject.

A Study Of Disease-of Pestilences Methodically Prepared And Deliberately Launched Upon Man And Beast-is Certainly Being Pursue In The Laboratories Of More Than One Great Country. Blight To Destroy Crops, Anthrax To Slay Horses And Cattle, Plague To Poison Not Armies But Whole Districts - Such Are The Lines Along Which Military Science Is Remorselessly Advancing.

To Be Really Happy And Really Safe, One Ought To Have At Least Two Or Three Hobbies, And They Must All Be Real.

I Love Learning, But Hate Being Taught.

When I Get To Heaven I Mean To Spend A Considerable Portion Of My First Million Years In Painting, And So Get To The Bottom Of The Subject.

Thus Ended The Great American Civil War, Which Must Upon The Whole Be Considered The Noblest And Least Avoidable Of All The Great Mass Conflicts Of Which Till Then There Was Record.

No Stronger Retrograde Force Exists In The World. Far From Being Moribund, Mohammedanism Is A Militant And Proselytizing Faith.

Sometimes Our Best Is Simply Not Enough.... We Have To Do What Is Required.

The Influence Exercised Over The Human Mind By Apt Analogies Is And Has Always Been Immense. Whether They Translate An Established Truth Into Simple Language Or Whether They Adventurously Aspire To Reveal The Unknown, They Are Among The Most Formidable Weapons Of The Rhetorician.

If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

A Small Lie Needs A Bodyguard Of Bigger Lies To Protect It.

Who Is Not Liberal When Young, Does Not Have A Heart. Who Is Not Conservative When Old, Does Not Have A Brain.

The Most Dangerous Moment Of The War, And The One Which Caused Me The Greatest Alarm, Was When The Japanese Fleet Was Heading For Ceylon And The Naval Base There. The Capture Of Ceylon, The Consequent Control Of The Indian Ocean, And The Possibility At The Same Time Of A German Conquest Of Egypt Would Have Closed The Ring And The Future Would Have Been Black.

A Man Must Choose His Own Way Of Life, And…it Is Only By Following Out One’s Own Bent That There Can Be The Really Harmonious Life.” [in An Interview Conducted By Bram Stoker]

When You Are Going Through Hell, Don't Stop.

I Do Not Understand This Squeamishness About The Use Of Gas... I Am Strongly In Favour Of Using Poisoned Gas Against Uncivilised Tribes... It Is Not Necessary To Use Only The Most Deadly Gases: Gases Can Be Used Which Cause Great Inconvenience And Would Spread A Lively Terror And Yet Would Leave No Serious Permanent Effects On Most Of Those Affected.

Be A Peg, Hammered Into The Frozen Ground, Immovable.

It Is Wonderful What Great Strides Can Be Made When There Is A Resolute Purpose Behind Them.

My Education Was Interrupted Only By My Schooling.

There Are Plenty Of Good Ideas, If Only They Can Be Backed With The Power Of Action.

You Do Your Worst, And We'll Do Our Best.

I Have Worked Very Hard With Nehru. I Told Him He Should Be The Light Of Asia, To Show All Those Millions How They Can Shine Out, Instead Of Accepting The Darkness Of Communism.

Russian May Seem Narrow-minded, Impudent, Or Even Stupid People, But Can Only Pray For Those Who Are Against Them.

I Am Certainly Not One Of Those Who Need To Be Prodded. In Fact, If Anything, I Am The Prod.

Never Give In, Never! Be It Concerning Large Things Or Small Things, Never, Never, Never!

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

It Is Impossible To Obtain A Conviction For Sodomy From An English Jury. Half Of Them Don't Believe That It Can Physically Be Done, And The Other Half Are Doing It.

It Was My Ambition All Of My Life To Be Master Of The Spoken Word.

I Must Place On Record My Regret That The Human Race Ever Learned To Fly.

Never Give In Except To Convictions Of Honour And Good Sense. Never Yield To Force; Never Yield To The Apparently Overwhelming Might Of The Enemy.

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

We Would Rather See London Laid In Ruins And Ashes Than That It Should Be Tamely And Abjectly Enslaved.

My Tastes Are Simple. I Like Only The Very Best.

Never Give In. Never Give In. Never, Never, Never, Never -- In Nothing, Great Or Small, Large Or Petty -- Never Give In, Except To Convictions Of Honor And Good Sense.

We Shall Show Mercy, But We Shall Not Ask For It.

There Is A Good Saying To The Effect That When A New Book Appears One Should Read An Old One. As As Author I Would Not Recommend Too Strict An Adherence To This Saying.

Say What You Have To Say And The First Time You Come To A Sentence With A Grammatical Ending - Sit Down.

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

Victory At All Costs, Victory In Spite Of All Terror, Victory However Long And Hard The Road May Be; For Without Victory, There Is No Survival.

Greatest Victory

I Was Not The Lion, But It Fell To Me To Give The Lion's Roar.

If Hitler Invaded Hell I Would Make At Least A Favourable Reference To The Devil In The House Of Commons.

It Is A Mistake To Look Too Far Ahead. Only One Link Of The Chain Of Destiny Can Be Handled At A Time.

Personal Initiative, Competitive Selection, The Profit Motive, Corrected By Failure And The Infinite Process Of Good Housekeeping And The Personal Ingenuity-here Constitute The Life Of A Free Society.

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.

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

The Late M. Venizelos Observed That In All Her Wars Englandhe Should Have Said Britain, Of Coursealways Wins One Battlethe Last.

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

There Are No People In The World Who Are So Slow To Develop Hostile Feelings Against A Foreign Country As The Americans, And No People Who, Once Estranged, Are More Difficult To Win Back.

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

A Nation That Forgets Its Past Has No Future.

I Myself Find Waiting More Tiring Than Action.

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

It Is Arguable Whether The Human Race Have Been Gainers By The March Of Science Beyond The Steam Engine. Electricity Opens A Field Of Infinite Conveniences To Ever Greater Numbers, But They May Well Have To Pay Dearly For Them. But Anyhow In My Thought I Stop Short Of The Internal Combustion Engine Which Has Made The World So Much Smaller. Still More Must We Fear The Consequences Of Entrusting A Human Race So Little Different From Their Predecessors Of The So-called Barbarous Ages Such Awful Agencies As The Atomic Bomb. Give Me The Horse.

Curse Ruthless Time! Curse Our Mortality. How Cruelly Short Is The Allotted Span For All We Must Cram Into It!

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

The Very First Thing The President [truman] Did Was To Show Me The New Presidential Seal, Which He Had Just Redesigned. He Explained, 'the Seal Has To Go Everywhere The President Goes. It Must Be Displayed Upon The Lectern When He Speaks. The Eagle Used To Face The Arrows But I Have Re-designed It So That It Now Faces The Olive Branches ... What Do You Think?' I Said, 'mr. President, With The Greatest Respect, I Would Prefer The American Eagle's Neck To Be On A Swivel So That It Could Face The Olive Branches Or The Arrows, As The Occasion Might Demand.'

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

If You Want Me To Speak For Two Minutes, It Will Take Me Three Weeks Of Preparation. If You Want Me To Speak For Thirty Minutes, It Will Take Me A Week To Prepare. If You Want Me To Speak For An Hour, I Am Ready Now.

It Is Of No Account; After All, The Old Bird Does Not Fly Far From His Nest.

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

Being Responsible

It Is Not Enough That We Do Our Best; Sometimes We Must Do What Is Required.

To Meet Roosevelt With All His Buoyant Sparkle, His Iridescence, Was Like Opening A Bottle Of Champagne.

God Alone Knows How Great It Is. All I Hope Is That It Is Not Too Late. I Am Very Much Afraid That It Is. We Can Only Do Our Best.

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

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.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

Victory And Defeat

In Success You Deserve It And In Defeat, You Need It.

It Saves A Lot Of Trouble If, Instead Of Having To Earn Money And Save It, You Can Just Go And Borrow It.

Christmas Is A Season Not Only Of Rejoicing But Of Reflection.

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

History Unfolds Itself By Strange And Unpredictable Paths. We Have Little Control Over The Future; And None At All Over The Past.

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

Things Don't Happen To Me. I Happen To Things!

There Comes A Special Moment In Everyone's Life, A Moment For Which That Person Was Born. That Special Opportunity, When He Seizes It, Will Fulfill His Mission - A Mission For Which He Is Uniquely Qualified. In That Moment, He Will Find Greatness. It Is His Finest Hour.

Play The Game For More Than You Can Afford To Lose... Only Then Will You Learn The Game.

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

Elections Exist For The Sake Of The House Of Commons And Not The House Of Commons For The Sake Of Elections.

And What A Plan! This Vast Operation Is Undoubtedly The Most Complicated And Difficult That Has Ever Occurred.

England Has Been Offered A Choice Between War And Shame. She Has Chosen Shame And Will Get War.

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

A Pessimist Sees The Difficulty In Every Opportunity; An Optimist Sees The Opportunity In Every Difficulty.

Un Pesimista Ve La Dificultad En Cada Oportunidad; Un Optimista Ve Una Oportunidad En Cada Dificultad

I Am Not Invested With Dictatorial Powers. If I Were, I Should Be Quite Ready To Dictate.

Our Future Is In Our Hands. Our Lives Are What We Choose To Make Them.

Vast And Fearsome As The Human Scene Has Become, Personal Contact Of The Right People, In The Right Places, At The Right Time, May Yet Have A Potent And Valuable Part To Play In The Cause Of Peace Which Is In Our Hearts.

Meet Success Like A Gentleman; Disaster Like A Man.

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

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."

We Must Not Lose Our Faculty To Dare, Particularly In Dark Days.

The United States Stands At The Pinnacle Of World Power. This Is A Solemn Moment For The American Democracy. For With Primacy In Power Is Joined An Awe-inspiring Accountability For The Future.

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

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

America, Can Always Be Counted Upon To Do The Right Thing In The End, Having First Exhausted The Available Alternatives.

When I Was Younger I Made It A Rule Never To Take Strong Drink Before Lunch. It Is Now My Rule Never To Do So Before Breakfast.

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

Air Power May Either End War Or End Civilization.

It Is Better To Be Making The News Than Taking It, To Be An Actor Rather Than A Critic.

Positive Thinking

Certainly The Prolonged Education Indispensable To The Progress Of Society Is Not Natural To Mankind.

Progress Of Society

No Lover Ever Studied Every Whim Of His Mistress As I Did Those Of President Roosevelt.

Air Superiority Is The Ultimate Expression Of Military Power.

Every Garden Presents Innumerable Fascinating Problems.

Twice In My Lifetime The Long Arm Of Destiny Has Reached Across The Oceans And Involved The Entire Life And Manhood Of The United States In A Deadly Struggle.there Was No Use In Saying We Don't Want It; We Won

When You Are Winning A War Almost Everything That Happens Can Be Claimed To Be Right And Wise.

I Have Been Brought Up And Trained To Have The Utmost Contempt For People Who Get Drunk.

When Someone Says To Me, Ugh, You Smoke. I Reply, Ugh, You're Ugly. I Can Quit Smoking.

Talking Death Seriously Is One Of The Tragedies Of Youth

Still, It Is The Primary Right Of Men To Die And Kill For The Land They Live In, And To Punish With Exceptional Severity All Members Of Their Own Race Who Have Warmed Their Hands At The Invaders' Hearth.

Logic Is A Poor Guide Compared With Custom.

Where Does The Family Start? It Starts With A Young Man Falling In Love With A Girl - No Superior Alternative Has Yet Been Found.

If You Are Going To Go Through Hell, Keep Going

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

Advertising Mourishes The Consuming Power Of Men. It Sets Up Before A Man The Goal Of A Better Home, Better Clothing, Better Food For Himself And His Family. It Spurs Individual Exertion And Greater Production.

Here Life Itself, Life At Its Best And Healthiest, Awaits The Caprice Of The Bullet. Let Us See The Development Of The Day. All Else May Stand Over, Perhaps For Ever. Existence Is Never So Sweet As When It Is At Hazard.

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.

The Inherent Blessing Of Socialism Is The Equal Sharing Of Misery.

You May Have To Fight When There Is No Hope Of Victory, Because It Is Better To Perish Than Live As Slaves.

Odds Against You

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 Battle Of France Is Over. The Battle Of Britain Is About To Begin. Upon This Battle Depends The Future Of Christian Civilisation.

We Are Happier In Many Ways When We Are Old Than When We Were Young. The Young Sow Wild Oats. The Old Grow Sage.

Without Execution, Thinking Is Mere Idleness.

I Think It Is The Most Important Subject Facing This Country, But I Cannot Get Any Of My Ministers To Take Any Notice.

From Stettin In The Baltic To Trieste In The Atlantic, An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across The Continent. Behind The Line Lie All The Capitals Of The Ancient States Of Central And Eastern Europe... All These Famous Cities And The Populations Around Them Lie In What I Must Call The Soviet Sphere, And All Are Subject In One Form Or Another, Not Only To Soviet Influence But To A Very High And, In Many Cases, Increasing Measure Of Control From Moscow.

Strategy Is All Very Well, But It Pays To Give Thought From Time To Time To The Results.

Like A Sea-beast Fished Up From The Depths, Or A Diver Too Suddenly Hoisted, My Veins Threatened To Burst From The Fall In Pressure. I Had Great Anxiety And No Means Of Relieving It ... And Then It Was That The Muse Of Painting Came To My Rescue - Out Of Charity And Out Of Chivalry ... - And Said, "are These Toys Any Good To You? They Amuse Some People."

Never, Ever Ever Ever Ever Give Up.

We Must Beware Of Trying To Build A Society In Which Nobody Counts For Anything Except A Politician Or An Official, A Society Where Enterprise Gains No Reward And Thrift No Privileges

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

The Cemetery Is Full Of Indispensable People.

No Socialist Government Conducting The Entire Life And Industry Of The Country Could Afford To Allow Free, Sharp Or Violently Worded Expressions Of Public Discontent. They Would Have To Fall Back On Some Form Of Gestapo, No Doubt Very Humanly Directed In The First Instance.

Socialist Government

If You Simply Take Up The Attitude Of Defending A Mistake, There Will No Hope Of Improvement.

There Is, Therefore, Wisdom In Reserving One's Decisions As Long As Possible And Until All The Facts And Forces That Will Be Potent At The Moment Are Revealed.

The Water Was Not Fit To Drink. To Make It Palatable, We Had To Add Whisky. By Diligent Effort, I Learned To Like It.

When You Feel You Cannot Continue In Your Position For Another Minute, And All That Is In Human Power Has Been Done, That Is The Moment When The Enemy Is Most Exhausted, And When One Step Forward Will Give You The Fruits Of The Struggle You Have Borne

Never Stand So High Upon A Principle That You Cannot Lower It To Suit The Circumstances.

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

No One Ever Finds Life Worth Living - One Has To Make It Worth Living.

Life Worth Living

Having A Positive Attitude

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

The Navy Can Lose Us The War, But Only The Air Force Can Win It. The Fighters Are Our Salvation, But The Bombers Alone Provide The Means Of Victory.

Opening Amenities Are Often Opening Inanities.

It Is All True, Or It Ought To Be; And More And Better Besides.

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

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

[much] As War Attracts Me And Fascinates My Mind With Its Tremendous Situations, I Feel More Deeply Every Year . . . What Vile And Wicked Folly And Barbarism It All Is.

It Seems To Me That The Moment Has Come When The Question Of Bombing Of German Cities Simply For The Sake Of Increasing The Terror, Though Under Other Pretexts, Should Be Reviewed...i Feel The Need For More Precise Concentration Upon Military Objectives, Such As Oil And Communications Behind The Immediate Battle-zone, Rather Than On Mere Acts Of Terror And Wanton Destruction, However Impressive.

We Hoped To Land A Wild Cat That Would Tear Out The Bowels Of The Boche. Instead We Have Stranded A Vast Whale With Its Tail Flopping About In The Water.

The English Are Loth To Express Their Feelings, But In My Stall In The Choir I Could Feel The Pent-up, Passionate Emotion, And Also The Fear Of The Congregation, Not Of Death Or Wounds Or Material Loss, But Of Defeat And The Final Ruin Of Britain.

It So Often Happens That, When Men Are Convinced That They Have To Die, A Desire To Bear Themselves Well And To Leave Life's Stage With Dignity Conquers All Other Sensations.

Sunshine Is My Quest.

I Gather, Young Man, That You Wish To Be A Member Of Parliament. The First Lesson That You Must Learn Is, When I Call For Statistics About The Rate Of Infant Mortality, What I Want Is Proof That Fewer Babies Died When I Was Prime Minister Than When Anyone Else Was Prime Minister. That Is A Political Statistic.

Old Men Make War, Young Men Fight And Die

To Build May Have To Be The Slow And Laborious Task Of Years. To Destroy Can Be The Thoughtless Act Of A Single Day.

I Remember When I Was A Child, Being Taken To The Celebrated Barnum's Circus, Which Contained An Exhibition Of Freaks And Monstrosities, But The Exhibit On The Program Which I Most Desired To See Was The One Described As ‘the Boneless Wonder’. My Parents Judged That The Spectacle Would Be Too Demoralizing And Revolting For My Youthful Eye And I Have Waited Fifty Years, To See The Boneless Wonder Sitting On The Treasury Bench.

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.

Have Not Manet And Monet, Cézanne And Matisse, Rendered To Painting Something Of The Same Service Which Keats And Shelley Gave To Poetry After The Solemn And Ceremonious Literary Perfections Of The Eighteenth Century? They Have Brought Back To The Pictorial Art A New Draught Of Joie De Vivre; And The Beauty Of Their Work Is Instinct With Gaiety, And Floats In Sparkling Air. I Do Not Expect These Masters Would Particularly Appreciate My Defence, But I Must Avow An Increasing Attraction To Their Work.

One May Imagine That A Man Who Blew The Trumpet For His Living Would Be Glad To Play The Violin For His Amusement.

All This Contains Much That Is Obviously True, And Much That Is Relevant; Unfortunately, What Is Obviously True Is Not Relevant, And What Is Relevant Is Not Obviously True.

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