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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.

-Winston Churchill

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Make For The Children

Winston Churchill

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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.

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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.

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Never, Ever Ever Ever Ever Give Up.

Art Is To Beauty What Honor Is To Honesty.

Painting Is A Companion With Whom One May Walk A Great Part Of Life's Journey.

If You Are Going Through Hell Just Keep Going

So Long As I Am Acting From Duty And Conviction, I Am Indifferent To Taunts And Jeers. I Think They Will Probably Do Me More Good Than Harm.

The Person Of Truth Must Be Covered With Bodyguards Of Lies.

If We Are Together Nothing Is Impossible. If We Are Divided All Will Fail.

My Education Was Interrupted Only By My Schooling.

An Extra Yawn One Morning In The Springtime, An Extra Snooze One Night In The Autumn Is All That We Ask In Return For Dazzling Gifts. We Borrow An Hour One Night In April; We Pay It Back With Golden Interest Five Months Later.

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

No One Should Waste A Day.

I Have Not Become The Kings First Minister In Order To Preside Over The Liquidation Of The British Empire.

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.

No One Ever Came To Grief-except Honorable Grief-through Riding Horses. No Hour Of Life Is Lost That Is Spent In The Saddle. Young Men Have Often Been Ruined Through Owning Horses, Or Through Backing Horses, But Never Through Riding Them; Unless Of Course They Break Their Necks, Which, Taken At A Gallop, Is A Very Good Death To Die.

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Democracy Is The Best Form Of The Worst Type Of Government

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We Were Not Made By Nature To Work, Or Even To Play, From Eight O'clock In The Morning Till Midnight. We Ought To Break Our Days And Our Marches Into Two.

Writing Is An Adventure.

We Are Masters Of The Unsaid Words, But Slaves Of Those We Let Slip Out.

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The Air Is An Extremely Dangerous, Jealous And Exacting Mistress. Once Under The Spell Most Lovers Are Faithful To The End, Which Is Not Always Old Age. Even Those Masters And Princes Of Aerial Fighting, The Survivors Of Fifty Mortal Duels In The High Air Who Have Come Scatheless Through The War And All Its Perils, Have Returned Again And Again To Their Love And Perished Too Often In Some Ordinary Commonplace Flight Undertaken For Pure Amusement.

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

An Appeaser Is One Who Feeds A Crocodile, Hoping It Will Eat Him Last.

If I Had Been An Italian I Am Sure That I Should Have Been Whole-heartedly With You From The Start To Finish In Your Triumphant Struggle Against The Bestial Appetites And Passions Of Leninism.

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.

The Times Is Speechless, And Takes Three Columns To Express Its Speechlessness.

What A Fool I Have Been!

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

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Courage Is Rightly Considered The Foremost Of The Virtues, For Upon It All Others Depend.

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

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

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Never Give In Except To Convictions Of Honor And Good Sense.

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I Shall Endeavor To Marshal British Opinion Against A Course Of Action Which Would Bring In My Opinion The Greatest Evils Upon The People Of India, Upon The People Of Great Britain And Upon The British Empire Itself.

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

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Guarantees That

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We Make Our Buildings And Afterwards They Make Us. They Regulate The Course Of Our Lives.

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These Cruel, Wanton, Indiscriminate Bombings Of London Are, Of Course, A Part Of Hitler's Invasion Plans. He Hopes, By Killing Large Numbers Of Civilians, And Women And Children, That He Will Terrorise And Cow The People Of This Mighty Imperial City ... Little Does He Know The Spirit Of The British Nation, Or The Tough Fibre Of The Londoners.

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

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

There Are Men In The World Who Derive An Exaltation From The Proximity Of Disaster And Ruin, As Other From Success.

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.

In War, Truth Is Often The First Casualty.

The Almighty In His Infinite Wisdom Did Not See Fit To Create Frenchmen In The Image Of Englishmen.

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.

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Do You Know Why The Nose Of The Bull Dog Is Sloped Backwards? So It Can Keep On Breathing Without Ever Letting Go.

We Are Really Doing Our Very Best. There Are No Doubt Many Mistakes And Shortcomings. A Lot Of Things Are Done None Too Well. Some Things That Ought To Be Done Have Not Yet Been Done...[but Britain's Effort Has] Justly Commanded The Wonder And Admiration Of Every Friendly Nation In The World.

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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.

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I Like A Man Who Grins When He Fights.

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It Is A Good Thing For An Uneducated Man To Read Books Of Quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Is An Admirable Work, And I Studied It Intently. The Quotations When Engraved Upon The Memory Give You Good Thoughts. They Also Make You Anxious To Read The Authors And Look For More.

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

All Men Make Mistakes, But Only Wise Men Learn From Their Mistakes.

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The Gratitude Of Every Home In Our Island, In Our Empire, And Indeed Throughout The World, Except In The Abodes Of The Guilty, Goes Out To The British Airmen Who, Undaunted By Odds, Unwearied In Their Constant Challenge And Mortal Danger, Are Turning The Tide Of The World War By Their Prowess And By Their Devotion. Never In The Field Of Human Conflict Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few.

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Funny Sarcastic

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Please Put The Ladybug Outside Without Harming Her. (to His Butler)

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

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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How Often In Life Must One Be Content With What One Can Get!

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No Crime Is So Great As Daring To Excel.

The Story Of The Human Race Is War. Except For Brief And Precarious Interludes There Has Never Been Peace In The World; And Long Before History Began Murderous Strife Was Universal And Unending.

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.

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

Preposition: An Enormously Versatile Part Of Grammar, As In 'what Made You Pick This Book I Didn't Want To Be Read To Out Of Up For?'

...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.

Air Power Can Either Paralyze The Enemy's Military Action Or Compel Him To Devote To The Defense Of His Bases And Communications A Share Of His Straitened Resources Far Greater That What We Need In The Attack.

I Do Not Understand This Squeamishness About The Use Of Gas. We Have Definitely Adopted The Position At The Peace Conference Of Arguing In Favour Of The Retention Of Gas As A Permanent Method Of Warfare. It Is Sheer Affectation To Lacerate A Man With The Poisonous Fragment Of A Bursting Shell And To Boggle At Making His Eyes Water By Means Of Lachrymatory Gas.

There Is Only One Answer To Defeat And That Is Victory.

To Improve Is To Change.

Golf Is A Game Whose Aim Is To Hit A Very Small Ball Into An Ever Smaller Hole, With Weapons Singularly Ill-designed For The Purpose

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

Where There Is A Great Deal Of Free Speech There Is Always A Certain Amount Of Foolish Speech.

Freedom Of Speech

The Substitution Of The Internal Combustion Engine For The Horse Marked A Very Gloomy Milestone In The Progress Of Mankind.

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.

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

It Is Sheer Laziness Not Compressing Thought Into A Reasonable Space.

The Way To Achieve Happiness Is To Try For Perfection That Is Impossible To Achieve, And Spend The Rest Of Your Life Trying To Achieve It.

War, Which Used To Be Cruel And Magnificent Has Now Become Cruel And Squalid.

At The Beginning Of This War Megalomania Was The Only Form Of Sanity.

Fancy Living In One Of These Streets, Never Seeing Anything Beautiful, Never Eating Anything Savoury, Never Saying Anything Clever!

Nature Will Not Be Admired By Proxy.

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

There Is More Blood Than Paint Upon These Hands. All Those Thousands Of Men Killed. We Thought It Would Be A Little Job, And So It Might Have Been If It Had Begun In The Right Way.

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.

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.

Unpunctuality Is A Vile Habit.

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

Every Day You May Make Progress. Every Step May Be Fruitful. Yet There Will Stretch Out Before You An Ever-lengthening, Ever-ascending, Ever-improving Path. You Know You Will Never Get To The End Of The Journey. But This, So Far From Discouraging, Only Adds To The Joy And Glory Of The Climb.

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If You Mean To Profit, Learn To Please.

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