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Millions Who Could Not Follow Closely Or Accurately The Main Events Of The War Looked Day After Day In The Papers For The Fortunes Of Mafeking, And When Finally The News Of Its Relief Was Flashed Throughout The World, The Streets Of London Became Impassable, And The Floods Of Sterling, Cockney Patriotism Were Released In Such A Deluge Of Unbridled, Delirious Joy As Was Never Witnessed Again Till Armistace Night, 1918.

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Winston Churchill

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Millions Who Could Not Follow Closely Or Accurately The Main Events Of The War Looked Day After Day In The Papers For The Fortunes Of Mafeking, And When Finally The News Of Its Relief Was Flashed Throughout The World, The Streets Of London Became Impassable, And The Floods Of Sterling, Cockney Patriotism Were Released In Such A Deluge Of Unbridled, Delirious Joy As Was Never Witnessed Again Till Armistace Night, 1918.

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He Looks Like A Female Llama Who Has Been Surprised In The Bath.

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Nowadays We Are Assailed By A Chorus Of Horrid Threats. The Nazi Government Exudes Through Every Neutral State Inside Information Of The Frightful Vengeance They Are Going To Wreak Upon Us, And They Also Bawl It Around The World By Their Leather-lunged Propaganda Machine. If Words Could Kill, We Should Be Dead Already.

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.

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.

Where My Reason, Imagination Or Interest Were Not Engaged, I Would Not Or I Could Not Learn.

Nothing In Life Is So Exhilarating As To Be Shot At Without Result.

A World United Is Better Than A World Divided, But A World Divided Is Better Than A World Destroyed.

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

If, However, There Is To Be A War Of Nerves Let Us Make Sure Our Nerves Are Strong And Are Fortified By The Deepest Convictions Of Our Hearts.

The Essence And Foundation Of House Of Commons Debating Is Formal Conversation. The Set Speech, The Harangue Addressed To Constituents, Or To The Wider Public Out Of Doors, Has Never Succeeded Much In Our Small Wisely-built Chamber. To Do Any Good You Have Got To Get Down To Grips With The Subject And In Human Touch With The Audience.

I Am Never Going To Have Anything More To Do With Politics Or Politicians. When This War Is Over I Shall Confine Myself Entirely To Writing And Painting.

The Maxim, "nothing Prevails But Perfection," May Be Spelled Paralysis.

What Does All This Stuff About Flying Saucers Amount To? What Can It Mean? What Is The Truth?

When Iraq Becomes Strong Enough In Our Opinion To Stand Alone, We Shall Be In A Position To State That Our Task Has Been Fulfilled, And That Iraq Is An Independent Sovereign State. But This Cannot Be Said While We Are Forced Year After Year To Spend Very Large Sums Of Money On Helping The Iraqi Government To Defend Itself And Maintain Order.

We Are Asking The Nations Of Europe Between Whom Rivers Of Blood Have Flowed, To Forget The Feuds Of A Thousand Years And Work For The Larger Harmonies On Which The Future Depends.

It Is Conceivable That I Might Well Be Reborn As A Chinese Coolie. In Such Case I Should Lodge A Protest.

It Is Always Wise To Look Ahead, But Difficult To Look Further Than You Can See.

A Sheep In Sheep's Clothing.

Everything Trends Towards Catastrophe & Collapse. I Am Interested, Geared Up & Happy. Is It Not Horrible To Be Built Like That?

Hess Or No Hess, I'm Going To Watch The Marx Brothers.

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There Is No Greater Mistake Than To Suppose That Platitudes, Smooth Words, Timid Policies, Offer Today A Path To Safety.

Kites Rise Highest Against The Wind - Not With It.

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Air Superiority Is The Ultimate Expression Of Military Power.

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Who's In Or Out, Who Moves The Grand Machine, Nor Stirs My Curiosity, Or Spleen; Secrets Of State No More I Wish To Know Than Secret Movements Of A Puppet-show; Let But The Puppets Move, I've My Desire, Unseen The Hand Which Guides The Master Wire.

... I Think It Would Be So Much Better For Me To Learn Something Which Would Be Useful To Me In The Army, As Well As Affording Me Exercise And Amusement.

It Has Been Said That Democracy Is The Worst Form Of Government Except All The Others That Have Been Tried.

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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.'

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The Russian Bolsheviks Have Discovered That Truth Does Not Matter So Long As There Is Reiteration. They Have No Difficulty Whatever In Countering A Fact By A Lie Which, If Repeated Often Enough And Loudly Enough, Becomes Accepted By The People.

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

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Hope Has Returned To The Hearts Of Scores Of Millions Of Men And Women, And With That Hope There Burns The Flame Of Anger Against The Brutal, Corrupt Invader ... In A Dozen Famous Ancient States Now Prostrate Under The Nazi Yoke, The Masses Of The People ... Await The Hour Of Liberation ... That Hour Will Strike, And Its Solemn Peal Will Proclaim That The Night Is Past And That The Dawn Has Come.

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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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Those Who Plan Do Better Than Those Who Do Not Plan, Even Should They Rarely Stick To Their Plan.

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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.

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I Have Found In My Experience Of War, That Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Invaluable.

Sure I Am This Day We Are Masters Of Our Fate, That The Task Which Has Been Set Before Us Is Not Above Our Strength; That Its Pangs And Toils Are Not Beyond Our Endurance. As Long As We Have Faith In Our Own Cause And An Unconquerable Will To Win, Victory Will Not Be Denied Us.

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.'

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For Good Or For Ill, Air Mastery Is Today The Supreme Expression Of Military Power And Fleets And Armies, However Vital And Important, Must Accept A Subordinate Rank.

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It Is No Use Doing What You Like; You Have Got To Like What You Do.

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We Must Be United, We Must Be Undaunted, We Must Be Inflexible. Our Qualities And Deeds Must Burn And Glow Through The Gloom Oeurope Until They Become The Veritable Beacon Oits Salvation.

If The Past Sits In Judgment On The Present, The Future Will Be Lost.

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There Are Bitter Weeds In England.

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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.

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

A Nation Which Has Forgotten Its Past Can Have No Future.

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We Build Dwellings And Thereafter They Build Us.

You Ask, What Is Our Policy? I Will Say; 'it Is To Wage War, By Sea, Land And Air, With All Our Might And With All The Strength That God Can Give Us: To Wage War Against A Monstrous Tyranny, Never Surpassed In The Dark Lamentable Catalogue Of Human Crime. That Is Our Policy.' You Ask, What Is Our Aim? I Can Answer With One Word: Victory-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.

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Socialism Needs To Pull Down Wealth; Liberalism Seeks To Raise Up Poverty. Socialism Would Destroy Private Interests, Liberalism Would Preserve [them] ... By Reconciling Them With Public Right. Socialism Would Kill Enterprise; Liberalism Would Rescue Enterprise From The Trammels Of Privilege And Preference. Socialism Assails The Preeminence Of The Individual; Liberalism Seeks ... To Build Up A Minimum Standard For The Mass. Socialism Exalts The Rule; Liberalism Exalts The Man. Socialism Attacks Capitalism; Liberalism Attacks Monopoly.

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All Was There-the Programme Of German Resurrection, The Technique Of Party Propaganda; The Plan For Combating Marxism; The Concept Of A National-socialist State; The Rightful Position Of Germany At The Summit Ofthe World. Here Was The New Koran Of Faith And War: Turgid, Verbose, Shapeless, But Pregnant With Its Message.

When You Have Got A Thing Where You Want, It Is A Good Thing To Leave It Where It Is.

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.

If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

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I Do Think Unpunctuality Is A Vile Habit, And All My Life I Have Tried To Break Myself Of It.

I Have Watched This Famous Island Descending Incontinently, Fecklessly, The Stairway Which Lead To A Dark Gulf.

If Europe Were Once United In The Sharing Of Its Common Inheritance There Would Be No Limit To The Happiness, The Prosperity, And The Glory Which Its Three Or Four Million People Would Enjoy.

Diversity Is The One True Thing We All Have In Common... Celebrate It Every Day.

To Improve Is To Change.

There Are Few Virtues That The Poles Do Not Possess And There Are Few Errors They Have Ever Avoided.

Never Yield To The Apparently Overwhelming Might Of The Enemy.

If You're Not A Liberal At Twenty You Have No Heart, If You're Not A Conservative At Forty, You Have No Brain.

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

Broadly Speaking, Human Beings May Be Divided Into Three Classes: Those Who Are Billed To Death, Those Who Are Worried To Death, And Those Who Are Bored To Death.

Success In Life Is The Ability To Move From One Mistake To Another Without Loosing Enthusiasm.

A Man Can Wear Out A Particular Part Of His Mind By Continually Using And Tiring It, Just In The Same Way He Can Wear Out The Elbows Of His Coat.

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

In Hitler's Launching Of The Nazi Campaign Upon Russia We Can Already See, After Less Than Six Months Of Fighting, That He Made One Of The Outstanding Blunders Of History, And The Results So Far Realized Constitute An Event Of Cardinal Importance In The Final Decision Of The War.

The Acts We Engage In For Appeasment Today, We Will Have To Remedy At Far Greater Cost And Remorse Tomorrow.

The Only Traditions Of The Royal Navy Are Rum, Sodomy And The Lash.

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

It May Well Be That We Shall By A Process Of Sublime Irony Have Reached A State In This Story Where Safety Will Be The Sturdy Child Of Terror, And Survival The Twin Brother Of Annihilation.

If We Win, Nobody Will Care. If We Lose, There Will Be Nobody To Care.

My Ability To Persuade My Wife To Marry Me Was Quite My Most Brilliant Achievement ... Of Course, It Would Have Been Impossible For Any Ordinary Man To Have Got Through What I Had To Go Through In Peace And War Without The Devoted Aid Of What We Call, In England, One's Better Half.

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.

The Most Formidable People In The World, And Now The Most Dangerous, People Who... Lay Down The Doctrine That Every Frontier Must Be The Starting Out Point For Invasion.

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

We Must Be Very Careful Not To Assign This Deliverance The Attributes Of A Victory. Wars Are Not Won By Evacuations

The Definition Of Courage Is Going From Defeat To Defeat With Enthusiasm.

There Is The Solution Which I Respectfully Offer To You In This Address To Which I Have Given The Title "the Sinews Of Peace."

We Shape Our Dwellings, And Afterwards Our Dwellings Shape Us.

Men Occasionally Stumble Over The Truth, But Most Of Them Pick Themselves Up And Hurry Off As If Nothing Had Happened.

The Short Words Are Best, And The Old Words, When Short, Are The Best Of All.

My Greatest Good Fortune In A Life Of Brilliant Experiences Has Been To Find You, And To Lead My Life With You. I Don't Feel Far Away From You Out Here At All. I Feel Very Near In My Heart; And Also I Feel That The Nearer I Get To Honour, The Nearer I Am To You.

He Is Like A Female Llama Surprised In Her Bath.

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

My Hand Seemed Arrested By A Silent Veto.

There Is Something Going On In Time And Space, And Beyond Time And Space, Which, Whether We Like It Or Not, Spells Duty.

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

His Name Is Rufus Ii-but The Ii Is Silent.

One Cannot Leap A Chasm In Two Jumps.

No One Can Understand History Without Continually Relating The Long Periods Which Are Constantly Mentioned To The Experiences Of Our Own Short Lives.

Continuous Effort - Not Strength Or Intelligence - Is The Key To Unlocking Our Potential.

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

A Polo Handicap Is A Persons Ticket To The World.

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There Is Not Much Collective Security In A Flock Of Sheep On The Way To The Butcher.

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.

Science Should Be On Tap, Not On Top.

Criticism May Not Be Agreeable, But It Is Necessary. It Fulfils The Same Function As Pain In The Human Body. It Calls Attention To An Unhealthy State Of Things.

I Don't Like Standing Near The Edge Of A Platform When An Express Train Is Passing Through. I Like To Stand Right Back And If Possible Get A Pillar Between Me And The Train. I Don't Like To Stand By The Side Of A Ship And Look Down Into The Water. A Second's Action Would End Everything. A Few Drops Of Desperation.

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

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