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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.

-Winston Churchill

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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.

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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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My Hand Seemed Arrested By A Silent Veto.

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It Is The People Who Control The Government, Not The Government The People.

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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.

And You, Madam, Are Ugly. But I Shall Be Sober In The Morning.

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Criticism Is Easy; Achievement Is Difficult.

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Painting A Picture Is Like Trying To Fight A Battle.

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I Am Sure That The Mistakes Of That Time Will Not Be Repeated; We Should Probably Make Another Set Of Mistakes.

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We (the British) Have Not Journeyed Across The Centuries, Across The Oceans, Across The Mountains, Across The Prairies, Because We Are Made Of Sugar Candy.

The Cultivation Of A Hobby And New Forms Of Interest Is A Policy Of First Importance To A Public Man.

I Am A Child Of The House Of Commons. I Was Brought Up In My Fathers House To Believe In Democracy. Trust The Peoplethat Was His Message.

The Dictator, In All His Pride, Is Held In The Grip Of His Party Machine. He Can Go Forward; He Cannot Go Back. He Must Blood His Hounds And Show Them Sport, Or Else, Like Actaeon Of Old, Be Devoured By Them. All-strong Without, He Is All-weak Within.

Singapore Could Only Be Taken After A Siege By An Army Of At Least 50,000 Men. It Is Not Considered Possible That The Japanese Would Embark On Such A Mad Enterprise.

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

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

There Is No Doubt That It Is Around The Family And The Home That All The Greatest Virtues, The Most Dominating Virtues Of Human, Are Created, Strengthened And Maintained.

Unless Some Effective Supranational Government Can Be Set Up And Brought Quickly Into Action, The Prospects Of Peace And Human Progress Are Dark And Doubtful.

There Are Two Processes Which We Adopt Consciously Or Unconsciously When We Try To Prophesy. We Can Seek A Period In The Past Whose Conditions Resemble As Closely As Possible Those Of Our Day, And Presume That The Sequel To That Period Will, Save For Some Minor Alterations, Be Similar. Secondly, We Can Survey The General Course Of Development In Our Immediate Past, And Endeavor To Prolong It Into The Near Future. The First Is The Method The Historian; The Second That Of The Scientist. Only The Second Is Open To Us Now, And This Only In A Partial Sphere.

What Kind Of People Do They [the Japanese] Think We Are?

The Great War Differed From All Ancient Wars In The Immense Power Of The Combatants And Their Fearful Agencies Of Destruction, And From All Modern Wars In The Utter Ruthlessness With Which It Was Fought... Europe And Large Parts Of Asia And Africa Became One Vast Battlefield On Which After Years Of Struggle Not Armies But Nations Broke And Ran. When All Was Over, Torture And Cannibalism Were The Only Two Expedients That The Civilized, Scientific, Christian States Had Been Able To Deny Themselves: And They Were Of Doubtful Utility.

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

The Women's Suffrage Movement Is Only The Small Edge Of The Wedge, If We Allow Women To Vote It Will Mean The Loss Of Social Structure And The Rise Of Every Liberal Cause Under The Sun. Women Are Well Represented By Their Fathers, Brothers, And Husbands.

I Had Been Brought Up And Trained To Have The Utmost Contempt For People Who Got Drunk - And I Would Have Liked To Have The Boozing Scholars Of The Universities Wheeled Into Line And Properly Chastised For Their Squalid Misuse Of What I Must Ever Regard As A Gift Of The Gods.

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

The Greatest Lesson In Life Is To Know That Even Fools Are Right Sometimes.

The Element Of The Unexpected And The Unforeseeable Is What Gives Some Of Its Relish To Life And Saves Us From Falling Into The Mechanical Thralldom Of The Logicians.

The Great War Differed From All Ancient Wars In The Immense Power Of The Combatants And Their Fearful Agencies Of Destruction, And From All Modern Wars In The Utter Ruthlessness With Which It Was Fought.

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.

When You Are On A Great Horse, You Have The Best Seat You Will Ever Have.

Have No Fear Of The Future. Let Us Go Forward Into Its Mysteries, Tear Away The Veils Which Hide It From Our Eyes, And Move Onwards With Confidence And Courage.

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

You Must Put Your Head Into The Lion's Mouth If The Performance Is To Be A Success.

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.

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

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