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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.

-Winston Churchill

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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.

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I Feel Like An Aeroplane At The End Of Its Flight, In The Dusk, With The Petrol Running Out, In Search Of A Safe Landing.

If The Human Race Wishes To Have A Prolonged And Indefinite Period Of Material Prosperity, They Have Only Got To Behave In A Peaceful And Helpful Way Toward One Another.

They Had Bombed London, Whether On Purpose Or Not, And The British People And London Especially Should Know That We Could Hit Back. It Would Be Good For The Morale Of Us All.

What Is The Use Of Living, If It Be Not To Strive For Noble Causes.

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.

It Would Be An Inconvenient Rule If Nothing Could Be Done Until Everything Can Be Done.

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If You Make 10,000 Regulations You Destroy All Respect For The Law.

The Cemetery Is Full Of Indispensable People.

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

First, Poland Has Been Again Overrun By Two Of The Great Powers Which Held Her In Bondage For 150 Years But Were Unable To Quench The Spirit Of The Polish Nation. The Heroic Defense Of Warsaw Shows That The Soul Of Poland Is Indestructible, And That She Will Rise Again Like A Rock Which May For A Spell Be Submerged By A Tidal Wave But Which Remains A Rock.

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

I Do Not Apologize For The Takeover Of The Region By The Jews From The Palestinians In The Same Way I Don't Apologize For The Takeover Of America By The Whites From The Red Indians Or The Takeover Of Australia From The Blacks. It Is Natural For A Superior Race To Dominate An Inferior One.

You Haven't Learned Life's Lesson Very Well If You Haven't Noticed That You Can Give The Tone Or Colour, Or Decide The Reaction You Want Of People In Advance. It's Unbelievable Simply. If You Want Them To Take An Interest In You, Take An Interest In Them First. If You Want To Make Them Nervous, Become Nervous Yourself...it's As Simple As That. People Will Treat You As You Treat Them. It's No Secret. Look About You. You Can Prove It With The Next Person You Meet.

Good Night, Then - Sleep To Gather Strength For The Morning. For The Morning Will Come. Brightly Will It Shine On The Brave And True, Kindly On All Who Suffer For The Cause, Glorious Upon The Tombs Of Heroes. Thus Will Shine The Dawn.

The United States Is A Land Of Free Speech. Nowhere Is Speech Freer - Not Even Here Where We Sedulously Cultivate It Even In Its Most Repulsive Form.

I Have Always Noticed That Whenever A Radical Takes To Imperialism, He Catches It In A Very Acute Form.

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.

It Is Hard, If Not Impossible, To Snub A Beautiful Woman - They Remain Beautiful And The Snub Recoils.

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.

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.

It Is A Good Thing To Stand Away From The Canvas From Time To Time And Take A Full View Of The Picture.

We Do Not War With Races Primarily As Such. Tyranny Is Our Foe. Whatever Trapping Or Disguise It Wears, Whatever Language It Speaks, Be It External Or Internal, We Must For Ever Be On Our Guard, Ever Mobilized, Ever Vigilant, Always Ready To Spring At Its Throat. In All This We March Together. Not Only Do We March And Strive Shoulder To Shoulder At This Moment, Under The Fire Of The Enemy On The Fields Of War Or In The Air, But Also In Those Realms Of Thought Which Are Consecrated To The Rights And The Dignity Of Man.

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

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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 Pashtun Tribes Are Always Engaged In Private Or Public War. Every Man Is A Warrior, A Politician And A Theologian Every Large House Is A Real Feudal Fortress....eve Ry Family Cultivates Its Vendetta; Every Clan, Its Feud....nothing Is Ever Forgotten And Very Few Debts Are Left Unpaid.

In Time Of War, Soldiers, However Sensible, Care A Great Deal More On Some Occasions About Slaking Their Thirst Than About The Danger Of Enteric Fever. Better Known As Typhoid, The Disease Is Often Spread By Drinking Contaminated Water.

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