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It Is Very Easy To Say That Your Opponents Have Been Guilty Of A Breach Of Faith, But It Is A Great Mistake To Splash The Paint About So Freely That Your Words Cease To Have Any Real Meaning And Cease To Carry Any Sense Of Affront Even To Those To Whom They Are Applied And Cease To Bear Any Connection With Any Genuine Feeling Of Indignation On The Part Of Those On Whose Behalf They Are Spoken.

-Winston Churchill

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Winston Churchill

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It Is Very Easy To Say That Your Opponents Have Been Guilty Of A Breach Of Faith, But It Is A Great Mistake To Splash The Paint About So Freely That Your Words Cease To Have Any Real Meaning And Cease To Carry Any Sense Of Affront Even To Those To Whom They Are Applied And Cease To Bear Any Connection With Any Genuine Feeling Of Indignation On The Part Of Those On Whose Behalf They Are Spoken.

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I Play For High Stakes And Given An Audience - There Is No Act Too Daring Or Too Noble.

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What Is The Use Of Living, If It Be Not To Strive For Noble Causes And To Make This Muddled World A Better Place For Those Who Will Live In It After We Are Gone? How Else Can We Put Ourselves In Harmonious Relation With The Great Verities And Consolations Of The Infinite And The Eternal? And I Avow My Faith That We Are Marching Towards Better Days. Humanity Will Not Be Cast Down. We Are Going On Swinging Bravely Forward Along The Grand High Road And Already Behind The Distant Mountains Is The Promise Of The Sun.

They Have Done What They Like. Their Difficulty Is To Like What They Have Done.

I Always Like To Learn, But I Don't Always Like To Be Taught.

The Whole History Of The World Is Summed Up In The Fact That, When Nations Are Strong, They Are Not Always Just, And When They Wish To Be Just, They Are No Longer Strong.

When There Is No Enemy Within, The Enemies Outside Cannot Hurt You.

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

The Is Always Much To Be Said For Not Attempting More Than You Can Do And For Making A Certainty Of What You Try. But This Principle, Like Others In Life And War, Has It Exceptions.

An Iron Curtain Has Descended Over Europe.

Is It Possible To Get Another Key? I Think I've Left Mine In The Room.

Some People Did Not Like This Ceremonious Style. But After All When You Have To Kill A Man It Costs Nothing To Be Polite.

In Battles Two Things Are Usually Required Of The Commander-in-chief: To Make A Good Plan For His Army And, Secondly, To Keep A Strong Reserve.

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

The World Today Is Ruled By Harassed Politicians Absorbed In Getting Into Office Or Turning Out The Other Man So That Not Much Room Is Left For Debating The Great Issues On Their Merits

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.

I Have Always Had A Curious Nature; I Enjoy Learning, But I Dislike Being Taught.

This War Proceeds Along Its Terrible Path By The Slaughter Of Infantry...i Say To Myself Every Day. What Is Going On While We Sit Here, While We Go Away To Dinner Or Home To Bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, And The Other Is America...everything Else Is Swept Away.

If You Find A Job You Love, You'll Never Work Again.

You Must Be Prepared For Further Efforts Of Mind And Body And Further Sacrifices To Great Causes, If You Are Not To Fall Back Into The Rut If Inertia, The Confusion Of Aim And The Craven Fear Of Being Great.

I Drink A Great Deal. I Sleep A Little, And I Smoke Cigar After Cigar. That Is Why I Am In Two-hundred-percent Form.

The Test Of Real Character Is What A Man Does When He Is Tired.

By Swallowing Evil Words Unsaid, No One Has Ever Harmed His Stomach.

The Cemetery Is Full Of Indispensable People.

I'm Going To Make A Long Speech Because I've Not Had The Time To Prepare A Short One.

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."

The United States Invariably Does The Right Thing, After Having Exhausted Every Other Alternative.

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.'

Don't Take 'no' For An Answer, Never Submit To Failure. Do Not Be Fobbed Off With Mere Personal Success Or Acceptance. You Will Make All Kinds Of Mistakes, But As Long As You Are Generous And True, And Also Fierce, You Cannot Hurt The World Or Events.

From Now On We Shall Bomb Germany On An Ever-increasing Scale, Month By Month, Year By Year, Until The Nazi Regime Has Either Been Exterminated By Us Or - Better Still - Torn To Pieces By The German People Themselves.

If You Recognize Anyone It Does Not Mean You Like Them.

Baldwin Often Times Stumbles Over The Truth, But He Always Picks Himself Up And Hurries On As If Nothing Had Happened.

I Do Not Agree That The Dog In A Manger Has The Final Right To The Manger Even Though He May Have Lain There For A Very Long Time. I Do Not Admit That Right. I Do Not Admit For Instance, That A Great Wrong Has Been Done To The Red Indians Of America Or The Black People Of Australia. I Do Not Admit That A Wrong Has Been Done To These People By The Fact That A Stronger Race, A Higher-grade Race, A More Worldly Wise Race To Put It That Way, Has Come In And Taken Their Place.

I Pass With Relief From The Tossing Sea Of Cause And Theory To The Firm Ground Of Result And Fact.

The Maxim Of The British People Is 'business As Usual.'

Nature Will Not Be Admired By Proxy.

Hitler Knows That He Will Have To Break Us In This Island Or Lose The War. If We Can Stand Up To Him, All Europe May Be Free, And Life Of The World May Move Forward Into Broad, Sunlit Uplands. But If We Fall, Then The Whole World, Including The United States, Including All That We Have Known And Cared For, Will Sink Into The Abyss Of A New Dark Age... Let Us Therefore Brace Ourselves To Our Duties, And So Bear Ourselves That, If The British Empire And Its Commonwealth Last For A Thousand Years, Men Will Still Say, 'this Was Their Finest Hour.'

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.

When Great Causes Are On The Move In The World, Stirring All Men's Souls, Drawing Them From Their Firesides, Casting Aside Comfort, Wealth And The Pursuit Of Happiness In Response To Impulses At Once Awe-striking And Irresistible, We Learn That We Are Spirits, Not Animals.

Pursuit Of Happiness

The Soul Of Freedom Is Deathless; It Cannot, And Will Not Perish.

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

One Can Usually Put One's Thoughts Better In One's Own Words.

There Is No Limit To The Ingenuity Of Man If It Is Properly And Vigorously Applied Under Conditions Of Peace And Justice.

Out Of Intense Complexities Intense Simplicities Emerge. Broadly Speaking, The Short Words Are The Best, And The Old Words When Short Are Best Of All.

The One Who Cannot See That On Earth A Big Endeavor Is Taking Place, An Important Plan, On Which Realization We Are Allowed To Collaborate As Faithful Servants, Certainly Has To Be Blind.

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It Is Wonderful How Well Men Can Keep Secrets They Have Not Been Told.

[my Ideal Of A Good Dinner] Is To Discuss Good Food, And, After This Good Food Has Been Discussed, To Discuss A Good Topic - With Myself The Chief Conversationalist.

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

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]

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Not To Have An Adequate Air Force In The Present State Of The World Is To Compromise The Foundations Of National Freedom And Independence.

Here Is A Law Which Is Above The King And Which Even He Must Not Break. This Reaffirmation Of A Supreme Law And Its Expression In A General Charter Is The Great Work Of Magna Carta; And This Alone Justifies The Respect In Which Men Have Held It

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Quotations When Engraved Upon The Memory Give You Good Thoughts.

The English Never Draw A Line Without Blurring It.

You Must Look At Facts, Because They Look At You.

Safety And Certainty In Oil Lie In Variety, And Variety Alone.

Without Ships, We Cannot Live.

He Has To Conceal What He Would Most Wish To Make Public, And Make Public What He Would Most Wish To Conceal.

Whenever I Feel The Need To Take Some Exercise I Lie Down Until The Feeling Goes Away.

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After A Time, Civil Servants Tend To Become No Longer Servants And No Longer Civil.

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If I Stay On For The Time Being, Bearing The Burden At My Age, It Is Not Because Of Love For Power Or Office. I Have Had An Ample Share Of Both. If I Stay It Is Because I Have A Feeling That I May, Through Things That Have Happened, Have An Influence About What I Care About Above All Else, The Building Of A Sure And Lasting Peace.

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

We Shall Not Fail Or Falter; We Shall Not Weaken Or Tire. Neither The Sudden Shock Of Battle, Nor The Long-drawn Trials Of Vigilance And Exertion Will Wear Us Down. Give Us The Tools And We Will Finish The Job.

I Am Very Glad There Are Quite A Number Of People Born With A Gift And A Liking For All Of This; Like Great Chessplayers Who Play Sixteen Games At Once Blindfold And Die Quite Soon Of Epilepsy. Serve Them Right! I Hope The Mathematicians, However, Are Well Rewarded. I Promise Never To Blackleg Their Profession Nor Take The Bread Out Of Their Mouths.

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.

It Is Always More Easy To Discover And Proclaim General Principles Than It Is To Apply Them.

War Is Mainly A Catalogue Of Blunders.

872, Ivar, King Of The Northmen Of All Ireland And Britain , Ended His Life." He Had Conquered Mercia And East Anglia. He Had Captured The Major Stronghold Of The Kingdom Of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden With Loot And Seemingly Invincible, He Settled In Dublin And Died There Peacefully Two Years Later. The Pious Chroniclers Report That He "slept In Christ." Thus It May Be That He Had The Best Of Both Worlds.

It Was At "little Lodge" I Was First Menaced With Education. The Approach Of A Sinister Figure Described As 'the Governess' Was Announced.

You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along. The Stronger Your Imagination, The More Variegated Your Universe. When You Leave Off Dreaming, The Universe Ceases To Exist.

In Wartime, Truth Is So Precious That She Should Always Be Attended By A Bodyguard Of Lies.

Madam, If You Were My Wife, I Would Drink It.

Time Passes Swiftly, But Is It Not Joyous To See How Great And Growing Is The Treasure We Have Gathered Together, Amid The Storms And Stresses Of So Many Eventful And To Millions Tragic And Terrible Years?

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

If You Want To Discover New Oceans, You Must First Have The Courage To Leave Shore.

You Never Can Tell Whether Bad Luck May Not After All Turn Out To Be Good Luck.

The Cat Does More For The War Effort Than You Do. He Acts As A Hot-water Bottle And Saves Fuel And Power.

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.

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

I Neither Want It [brandy] Nor Need It, But I Should Think It Pretty Hazardous To Interfere With The Ineradicable Habit Of A Lifetime.

One Ought To Be Just Before One Is Generous

Nature Has Not Intended Mankind To Work From Eight In The Morning Until Midnight Without That Refreshment Of Blessed Oblivion Which, Even If It Only Lasts Twenty Minutes, Is Sufficient To Renew All The Vital Forces.

I Am Too Busy. I Have Not Time For Worry.

It Is A Great Mistake To Suppose That Thrift Is Caused Only By Fear; It Springs From Hope As Well As From Fear; Where There Is No Hope, Be Sure There Will Be No Thrift.

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.

The Latest Refinements Of Science Are Linked With The Cruelties Of The Stone Age.

The Further Back I Look, The Further Forward I Can See.

Let Our Advance Worrying Become Advance Thinking And Planning.

For With Primacy In Power Is Also Joined An Awe Inspiring Accountability To The Future.

...the Schemes Of The International Jews. The Adherents Of This Sinister Confederacy Are Mostly Men Reared Up Among The Unhappy Populations Of Countries Where Jews Are Persecuted On Account Of Their Race... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilisation... This Band Of Extraordinary Personalities From The Underworld Of The Great Cities Of Europe And America Have Gripped The Russian People By The Hair Of Their Heads And Have Become Practically The Undisputed Masters Of That Enormous Empire.

Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow And Sacrifice Will Be Born Again The Glory Of Mankind.

Never Give In, Never Give In, Never Give In.

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.

Never Pass Up The Chance To Sit Down Or Go To The Bathroom.

Everyone Threw The Blame On Me ... They Nearly Always Do. I Suppose ... They Think I Shall Be Able To Bear It Best.

If You're Going To Walk Through Hell, Keep Going.

There Is No Doubt That It Is Around The Family And The Home That All The Greatest Virtues, The Most Dominating Virtues Of Human Society, Are Created, Strengthened And Maintained. Having A Family Guarantees That You Have A Built In Support System, And Although That Support System May Not Always Be What You Want It To Be, When It Comes Down To The Wire, Your Family Will Love You And Stand Behind You, No Matter What.

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We Must Never Cease To Proclaim In Fearless Tones The Great Principles Of Freedom And The Rights Of Man Which Are The Joint Inheritance Of The English-speaking World And Which Through Magna Carta, The Bill Of Rights, The Habeas Corpus, Trial By Jury, And The English Common Law Find Their Most Famous Expression In The American Declaration Of Independence.

The Power Of Man Has Grown In Every Sphere, Except Over Himself.

This Revelation Of The Secrets Of Nature, Long Mercifully Withheld From Man, Should Arouse The Most Solemn Reflections In The Mind And Conscience Of Every Human Being Capable Of Comprehension. We Must Indeed Pray That These Awful Agencies Will Be Made To Conduce To Peace Among The Nations, And That Instead Of Wreaking Measureless Havoc Upon The Entire Globe, May Become A Perennial Fountain Of World Prosperity.

It Is No Use Saying, 'we Are Doing Our Best.' You Have Got To Succeed In Doing What Is Necessary.

A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing.

And Wherever Men Are Fighting Against Barbarism, Tyranny, And Massacre, For Freedom, Law, And Honour, Let Them Remember That The Fame Of Their Deeds, Even Though They Themselves Be Exterminated, May Perhaps Be Celebrated As Long As The World Rolls Round.

Everybody Stumbles Across A Golden Opportunity At Least Once In A Lifetime. Unfortunately Most People Just Pick Themselves Up, Dust Themselves Down, And Walk Away From It.

Neville Chamberlain Looked At Foreign Affairs Through The Wrong End Of A Municipal Drainpipe.

Champagne Is The Wine Of Civilization And The Oil Of Government.

There Is A Forgotten, Nay Almost Forbidden Word, Which Means More To Me Than Any Other. That Word Is England.

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

The Arts Are Essential To Any Complete National Life. The State Owes It To Itself To Sustain And Encourage Them. [...] Ill Fares The Race Which Fails To Salute The Arts With The Reverence And Delight Which Are Their Due.

My Hope Is That The Generous Instincts Of Unity Will Not Depart From Us...[so That We] Become The Prey Of The Little Folk Who Exist In Every Country And Who Frolic Alongside The Juggernaut Car Of War To See What Fun Or Notoriety They Can Extract From The Proceedings.

The Oldest Habit In The World For Resisting Change Is To Complain That Unless The Remedy To The Disease Should Be Universally Applied It Should Not Be Applied At All. But You Must Start Somewhere.

[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.

Socialism Is An Attack On The Right To Breathe Freely. No Socialist System Can Be Established Without A Political Police.

The Only Guide To Man Is His Conscience.

The Only Statistics You Can Trust Are Those You Falsified Yourself.

Our Dog Chases People On A Bike. We've Had To Take It Off Him.

Do Not Trust Any Statistics You Did Not Fake Yourself.

Victory Will Never Be Found By Taking The Path Of Least Resistance.

Power Will Go To The Hands Of Rascals, Rogues, Freebooters; All Indian Leaders Will Be Of Low Calibre & Men Of Straw. They Will Have Sweet Tongues & Silly Hearts. They Will Fight Amongst Themselves For Power & India Will Be Lost In Political Squabbles. A Day Would Come When Even Air & Water Would Be Taxed In India.

When I Find A Ladybug I Ask The Butler To Take It Outside Instead Of Killing It.

Eating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion.

At The Depths Of That Dusty Soul There Is Nothing But Abject Surrender.

The Gin And Tonic Has Saved More Englishmen's Lives, And Minds, Than All The Doctors In The Empire.

Mr. Attlee Is A Very Modest Man. Indeed He Has A Lot To Be Modest About.

Never Give Up On Something That You Can't Go A Day Without Thinking About.

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.

Land Monopoly Is Not Only Monopoly, But It Is By Far The Greatest Of Monopolies; It Is A Perpetual Monopoly, And It Is The Mother Of All Other Forms Of Monopoly.

You Can Always Count On Americans To Do The Right Thing - After They've Tried Everything Else.

Little Did We Guess That What Has Been Called The Century Of The Common Man Would Witness As Its Outstanding Feature More Common Men Killing Each Other With Greater Facilities Than Any Other Five Centuries Together In The History Of The World.

It Is One Thing To See The Forward Path And Another To Be Able To Take It. But It Is Better To Have An Ambitious Plan Than None At All.

For The First Time I Heard Shots Fired In Anger, Heard Bullets Strike Flesh Or Whistle Through The Air.

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

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

You Must Understand That This War Is Not Against Hitler Or National Socialism, But Against The Strength Of The German People, Which Is To Be Smashed Once And For All, Regardless Of Whether It Is In The Hands Of Hitler Or A Jesuit Priest.

The Future Is Unknowable, But The Past Should Give Us Hope.

I Cannot But Think We Have Much To Be Thankful For, And More Still To Hope For In The Future.

Soviet Union Foreign Policy Is A Puzzle Inside A Riddle Wrapped In An Enigma, And The Key Is Russian Nationalism.

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

When You Are Going Through Hell, Keep On Going. Never Never Never Give Up.

Success Is Never Final.

Congratulations

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The Poodle [rufus] Ate In The Dining Room With The Rest Of The [churchill] Family. A Cloth Was Laid For Him On The Persian Carpet Beside The Head Of The Household, And No One Else Ate Until The Butler Had Served Rufus's Meal.

A Nation That Fails To Honor Its Heroes, Soon Will Have No Heroes To Honor.

I Hate Nobody Except Hitler--and That Is Professional.

My Mother Always Seemed To Me Like A Fairy Princess: A Radiant Being Possessed Of Limitless Riches And Power. She Shone For Me Like The Evening Star. I Loved Her Dearly.

Manifest Destiny Was On The March, And It Was Unfortunate That Mexico Stood In The Path.

Is The Only Lesson Of History To Be That Mankind Is Unteachable?

Side By Side ... The British And French Peoples Have Advanced To Rescue ... Mankind From The Foulest And Most Soul-destroying Tyranny Which Has Ever Darkened And Stained The Pages Of History. Behind Them ... Gather A Group Of Shattered States And Bludgeoned Races: The Czechs, The Poles, The Norwegians, The Danes, The Dutch, The Belgians -- Upon All Of Whom The Long Night Of Barbarism Will Descend, Unbroken Even By A Star Of Hope, Unless We Conquer, As Conquer We Must; As Conquer We Shall.

The Dark Ages May Return-the Stone Age May Return On The Gleaming Wings Of Science; And What Might Now Shower Immeasureable Material Blessings Upon Mankind May Even Bring About Its Total Destruction. Beware! I Say. Time May Be Short. Referring To The Discovery Of Atomic Energy.

The People Of Asia Were Slaves, Because They Had Not Learned How To Pronounce The Word 'no'.

Make For The Children An Evening Of Happiness In A World Of Storm. Let The Children Have Their Night Of Fun And Laughter... Resolved That By Our Daring, These Same Children Shall Not Be Denied Their Right To Live In A Free And Decent World.

Most Of The Significant Contributions That Have Been Made To Society Have Been Made By People Who Were Tired.

Remember The Story Of The Spanish Prisoner. For Many Years He Was Confined In A Dungeon... One Day It Occurred To Him To Push The Door Of His Cell. It Was Open; And It Had Never Been Locked.

Danger Gathers Upon Our Path. We Cannot Afford - We Have No Right - To Look Back. We Must Look Forward

Those Who Can Win A War Well Can Rarely Make A Good Peace And Those Who Could Make A Good Peace Would Never Have Won The War.

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

Show Me A Young Conservative And I'll Show You Someone With No Heart. Show Me An Old Liberal And I'll Show You Someone With No Brains.

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

The Test Of A People Is What They Can Do When They're Tired.

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

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

Congratulations

The Monarchy Is So Extraordinarily Useful. When Britain Wins A Battle She Shouts, God Save The Queen; When She Loses, She Votes Down The Prime Minister.

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

He Spoke With More Eloquence Than Wisdom.

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.

There's No Such Thing As A Good Tax.

What A Fool I Have Been!

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

It Is Not Alone That Property, In All Its Forms, Is Struck At, But That Liberty, In All Its Forms, Is Challenged By The Fundamental Conceptions Of Socialism.

When One Is In Office One Has No Idea How Damnable Things Can Feel To The Ordinary Rank And File Of The Public.

If You Cannot Read All Your Books, At Any Rate Handle Them, And, As It Were, Fondle Them. Let Them Fall Open Where They Will. Make A Voyage Of Discovery, Taking Soundings Of Uncharted Seas.

Democracy Is The Best Form Of The Worst Type Of Government

No Folly Is More Costly Than The Folly Of Intolerant Idealism.

No Idea Is So Outlandish That It Should Not Be Considered With A Searching But At The Same Time A Steady Eye.

A Polo Handicap Is A Persons Ticket To The World.

I'd Prefer To Be Right Than Consistent.

I Do Not Hold That We Should Rearm In Order To Fight. I Hold That We Should Rearm In Order To Parley.

Although Personally I Am Quite Content With Existing Explosives, I Feel We Must Not Stand In The Path Of Improvement.

And A Pamphlet Called Pick Me Up There Is No Genuine Hatred Against Herr Hitler.

We Are Weakened And We Are Tired, But We Are Not Done Yet.

Men Often Stumble Onto The Truth But Then Quickly Dust Themselves Off And Hurry Away.

Everyone Has His Day And Some Days Last Longer Than Others.

Cannot Possibly Attend First Night, Will Attend Second... If There Is One.

Victory Is Not Final. Defeat Is Not Failure. It's All About Courage.

It Is The English-speaking Nations Who, Almost Alone, Keep Alight The Torch Of Freedom.

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Let The Children Have Their Night Of Fun And Laughter, Let The Gifts Of Father Christmas Delight Their Play. Let Us Grown-ups Share To The Full In Their Unstinted Pleasures.

I Had No Idea Of The Enormous And Unquestionably Helpful Part That Humbug Plays In The Social Life Of Great Peoples Dwelling In A State Of Democratic Freedom.

Anyone Can Rat, But It Takes A Certain Amount Of Ingenuity To Re-rat.

I Do Not Presume To Explain How To Paint, But Only How To Get Enjoyment.

Churchill: "madam, Would You Sleep With Me For Five Million Pounds?" Socialite: "my Goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I Suppose... We Would Have To Discuss Terms, Of Course... " Churchill: "would You Sleep With Me For Five Pounds?" Socialite: "mr. Churchill, What Kind Of Woman Do You Think I Am?!" Churchill: "madam, We've Already Established That. Now We Are Haggling About The Price

This Fulfils My Ambition. I Still Have My Father's Robe As Chancellor. I Shall Be Proud To Serve You In This Splendid Office.

Difficulties Mastered Are Opportunities Won.

With The End Of The Victorian Era, We Passed Into What I Feel I Must Call The Terrible 20th Century

There Is Not One Single Social Or Economic Principle Or Concept In The Philosophy Of The Russian Bolshevik Which Has Not Been Realized, Carried Into Action, And Enshrined In Immutable Laws A Million Years Ago By The White Ant.

I Am A Sporting Man. I Always Like To Give Trains And Aeroplanes A Fair Chance Of Getting Away.

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