Background Image

...

[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.

-Winston Churchill

...

Please Wait....
Translating....

[much] As War Attracts

Winston Churchill

...

[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.

Views: 8

Topic

More From Winston Churchill

A Hopeful Disposition Is Not The Sole Qualification To Be A Prophet.

Like Other Systems In Decay, The Roman Empire Continued To Function For Several Generations After Its Vitality Was Sapped. For Nearly A Hundred Years Our Island Was One Of The Scenes Of Conflict Between A Dying Civilisation And Lusty, Famishing Barbarism.

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

Human Beings Are Of Two Classes: Those Whose Work Is Work And Whose Pleasure Is Pleasure; And Those Whose Work And Pleasure Are One.

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

How Many Have Gone? How Many More To Go? The Admiralty Is Fast Asleep And Lethargy & Inertia Are The Order Of The Day. However Everybody Seems Delighted - So There Is Nothing To Be Said. No Plans, No Enterprise, No Struggle To Aid The General Cause. Just Sit Still On The Spacious Throne And Snooze.

The Man Who Can Master His Time Can Master Nearly Anything.

Socialism Is Like A Dream. Sooner Or Later You Wake Up To Reality.

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

Unteachable From Infancy To Tomb — There Is The First & Main Characteristic Of Mankind.

Characteristics

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

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

We Make Our Buildings, And Then Our Buildings Make And Shape Us.

Have Not Manet And Monet, Cézanne And Matisse, Rendered To Painting Something Of The Same Service Which Keats And Shelley Gave To Poetry After The Solemn And Ceremonious Literary Perfections Of The Eighteenth Century? They Have Brought Back To The Pictorial Art A New Draught Of Joie De Vivre; And The Beauty Of Their Work Is Instinct With Gaiety, And Floats In Sparkling Air. I Do Not Expect These Masters Would Particularly Appreciate My Defence, But I Must Avow An Increasing Attraction To Their Work.

Most People Hate The Taste Of Beer - To Begin With. It Is, However, A Prejudice That Many People Have Been Able To Overcome.

The Vistas Of Possibility Are Only Limited By The Shortness Of Life.

Shortness Of Life

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 Water Was Not Fit To Drink. To Make It Palatable, We Had To Add Whisky. By Diligent Effort, I Learned To Like It.

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

The Tired Parts Of The Mind Can Be Rested And Strengthened Not Merely By Rest, But By Using Other Parts.

There Must Be What Mr. Gladstone Many Years Ago Called A Blessed Act Of Oblivion. We Must All Turn Our Backs Upon The Horrors Of The Past. We Must Look To The Future. We Cannot Afford To Drag Forward Across The Years That Are To Come The Hatreds And Revenges Which Have Sprung From The Injuries Of The Past.

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

In All The Twelve Years I Was At School No One Ever Succeeded In Making Me Write A Latin Verse Or Learn Any Greek Except The Alphabet.

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

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.

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

Time And The Ocean And Some Guiding Star And High Cabal Have Made Us What We Are.

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

The First Duty Of A University Is To Teach Wisdom, Not Trade; Character, Not Technicalities.

It Is Easier To Give Directions Than Advice, And More Agreeable To Have The Right To Act, Even In A Limited Sphere, Than The Privilege To Talk At Large.

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.

I Always Avoid Prophesying Beforehand, Because It Is A Much Better Policy To Prophesy After The Event Has Already Taken Place.

Dead Birds Don't Fall Out Of Their Nests.

I Have Not Always Been Wrong. History Will Bear Me Out, Particularly As I Shall Write That History Myself.

There Is A Good Saying To The Effect That When A New Book Appears One Should Read An Old One. As As Author I Would Not Recommend Too Strict An Adherence To This Saying.

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.

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.

There Must Not Be Lacking In Our Leadership Something Of That Spirit Of The Austrian Corporal Who, When All Had Fallen Into Ruins Around Him, And When Germany Seemed To Have Fallen Into Chaos, Did Not Hesitate To March Forth Against The Vast Army Of Victorious Nations And Has Already Turned The Tables Decisively Against Them.

Never Engage In A Battle Of Wits With An Unarmed Man.

All The Great Things Are Simple, And Many Can Be Expressed In A Single Word: Freedom, Justice, Honor, Duty, Mercy, Hope.

Today I May Way Before An Awestruck World; I Am Still Master Of My Fate. I Am Still Captain Of My Soul.

Democracy Is An Awful Way To Run A Country, But It's The Best System We Have.

There Is No Purpose In Living Where There Is Nothing To Do.

For The First 25 Years Of My Life, I Wanted Freedom. For The Next 25 Years, I Wanted Order. For The Next 25 Years, I Realized That Order Is Freedom.

Nothing Should Be Done For Spite's Sake.

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

There Are A Terrible Lot Of Lies Going About The World, And The Worst Of It Is That Half Of Them Are True.

One Man With Conviction Will Overwhelm A Hundred Who Have Only Opinions.

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

War Is A Game That Is Played With A Smile. If You Can't Smile, Grin. If You Can't Grin, Keep Out Of The Way Till You Can.

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

In The Past We Have Had A Light Which Flickered, In The Present We Have A Light Which Flames, And In The Future There Will Be A Light Which Shines Over All The Land And Sea.

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 Main Vice Of Capitalism Is The Uneven Distribution Of Prosperity. The Main Vice Of Socialism Is The Even Distribution Of Misery.

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.

A Sheep In Sheep's Clothing.

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

Never, Never, Never Give Up.

Peace Will Not Be Preserved By Pious Sentiments.

Success Comes From Continuing To Strive, Fail And Learn Without Losing Enthusiasm.

I Now Began For The First Time To Envy Those Young Cubs At The University Who Had Fine Scholars To Tell Them What Was What; Professors Who Had Devoted Their Lives To Mastering And Focusing Ideas In Every Branch Of Learning; Who Were Eager To Distribute The Treasures They Had Gathered Before They Were Overtaken By The Night. But Now I Pity Undergraduates, When I See What Frivolous Lives Many Of Them Lead In The Midst Of Precious Fleeting Opportunity. After All, A Man's Life Must Be Nailed To A Cross Either Of Thought Or Action. Without Work There Is No Play.

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.

All Dogs Look Up To You. All Cats Look Down On You. Only The Pig Looks At You As An Equal

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

The Only Guide To A Man's Conscience, The Only Shield To His Memory Is The Rectitude And Sincerity Of His Actions.

We Have Always Found The Irish A Bit Odd. They Refuse To Be English.

There Comes A Precious Moment In All Of Our Lives When We Are Tapped On The Shoulder And Offered The Opportunity To Do Something Very Special That Is Unique To Us And Our Abilities, What A Tragedy It Would Be If We Are Not Ready Or Willing.

We Need To Be Strong In Order To Avoid War; And To Win. A Politician Looks Forward Only To The Next Election. A Statesman Looks Forward To The Next Generation. Any Person Who Is Over 30 And Is Not A Conservative, Has No Brains.

In Success You Deserve It And In Defeat, You Need It.

Do Not Criticize Your Government When Out Of The Country. Never Cease To Do So When At Home

Any Idiot Can See Something Wrong. But Can You See What Is Right?

Do Not Turn The Superior Eye Of Critical Passivity Upon These Efforts .... We Must Not Be Ambitious. We Cannot Aspire To Masterpieces. We May Content Ourselves With A Joy Ride In A Paint-box.

Our Free Trade Plan Is Quite Simple. We Say That Every [citizen] Shall Have The Right To Buy Whatever He Wants, Wherever He Wants, At His Own Good Pleasure, Without Restriction Or Discouragement From The State.

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

We Are With Europe, But Not Of It. We Are Linked, But Not Comprised. We Are Interested And Associated, But Not Absorbed. And Should European Statesmen Address Us In The Words Which Were Used Of Old — “shall I Speak For Thee To The King Or The Captain Of The Host?” — We Should Reply With The Shunamite Woman: “nay, Sir, For We Dwell Among Our Own People.”

The Nation Will Find It Very Hard To Look Up To The Leaders Who Are Keeping Their Ears To The Ground.

Democracy Is The Best Form Of The Worst Type Of Government

We Are All Worms. However, I Like To Think I'm A Glow Worm

There Never Will Be Enough For Everything While The World Goes On. The More That Is Given The More There Will Be Needed.

The Cemetery Is Full Of Indispensable People.

Plans Are Worthless. Planning Is Priceless.

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.

Socialism Is A Philosophy Of Failure, The Creed Of Ignorance, And The Gospel Of Envy, Its Inherent Virtue Is The Equal Sharing Of Misery.

Democratic Socialism

Atlee Is A Very Modest Man. And With Reason.

Doubts Could Be Swept Away Only By Deeds.

I Will Not Pretend That If I Had To Choose Between Communism And Nazism I Would Choose Communism.

God For A Month Of Power & A Good Shorthand Writer.

It Is A Good Thing For An Uneducated Man To Read Books Of Quotations.

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.

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.

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

All This Contains Much That Is Obviously True, And Much That Is Relevant; Unfortunately, What Is Obviously True Is Not Relevant, And What Is Relevant Is Not Obviously True.

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.

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

Headmasters Have Powers At Their Disposal With Which Prime Ministers Have Never Yet Been Invested.

I Cannot Pretend To Be Impartial About The Colours. I Rejoice With The Brilliant Ones, And Am Genuinely Sorry For The Poor Browns.

All I Want Is Compliance With My Wishes, After Reasonable Discussion.

We Shall Escape The Absurdity Of Growing A Whole Chicken In Order To Eat The Breast Or Wing, By Growing These Parts Separately Under A Suitable Medium.

In War, The Truth Must Be Guarded By A Body Guard Of Lies.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The True Guide Of Life Is To Do What Is Right.

Never Run Away From Anything. Never!

Double Standard

Diplomacy Is The Art Of Telling Plain Truths Without Giving Offense.

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

Every Man Should Ask Himself Each Day Whether He Is Not Too Readily Accepting Negative Solutions.

Socialism Would Gather All Power To The Supreme Party And Party Leaders, Rising Like Stately Pinnacles Above Their Vast Bureaucracies Of Civil Servants No Longer Servants, No Longer Civil.

History's Villains Are More Easily Recognized In Retrospect. In An Article Published In 1935 And Reprinted In 1937, Winston Churchill Expressed A Curious Ambivalence Towards The German Chancellor Prior To The Outbreak Of War: We Cannot Tell Whether Hitler Will Be The Man Who Will Once Again Let Loose Upon The World Another War In Which Civilization Will Irretrievably Succumb, Or Whether He Will Go Down In History As The Man Who Restored Honour And Peace Of Mind To The Great Germanic Nation. . . .

Indomitable In Retreat, Invincible In Advance; Insufferable In Victory.

You Must Sleep Sometime Between Lunch And Dinner, And No Halfway Measures. Take Off Your Clothes And Get Into Bed. That's What I Always Do.

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

Here Is The Answer Which I Will Give To President Roosevelt. Give Us The Tools, And We Will Finish The Job.

We Used To Be A Source Of Fuel; We Are Increasingly Becoming A Sink. These Supplies Of Foreign Liquid Fuel Are No Doubt Vital To Our Industry, But Our Ever-increasing Dependence Upon Them Ought To Arouse Serious And Timely Reflection. The Scientific Utilisation, By Liquefaction, Pulverisation And Other Processes, Or Our Vast And Magnificent Deposits Of Coal, Constitutes A National Object Of Prime Importance.

Are You An Action-oriented, Take-charge Person Interested In Exciting New Challenges? As Director Of A Major Public-sector Organization, You Will Manage A Large Armed Division And Interface With Other Senior Executives In A Team-oriented, Multinational Initiative In The Global Marketplace. Successful Candidate Will Have Above-average Oral-presentation Skills

In Franklin Roosevelt There Died The Greatest American Friend We Have Ever Known - And The Greatest Champion Of Freedom Who Has Ever Brought Help And Comfort From The New World To The Old.

Criticism Is Easy; Achievement Is Difficult.

We Should Lay Aside Every Hindrance And Endeavour By Uniting The Whole Force And Spirit Of Our People To Raise Again A Great British Nation Standing Up Before All The World; For Such A Nation, Rising In Its Ancient Vigour, Can Even At This Hour Save Civilization.

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

The United States Is Like A Gigantic Boiler. Once The Fire Is Lit Under It, There's No Limit To The Power It Can Generate.

Never Abandon Life. There Is A Way Out Of Everything Except Death.

Canada Is The Linchpin Of The English-speaking World. Canada, With Those Relations Of Friendly, Affectionate Intimacy With The United States On The One Hand And With Her Unswerving Fidelity To The British Commonwealth And The Motherland On The Other, Is The Link Which Joins Together These Great Branches Of The Human Family, A Link Which, Spanning The Oceans, Brings The Continents Into Their True Relation And Will Prevent In Future Generations Any Growth Of Division Between The Proud And The Happy Nations Of Europe And The Great Countries Which Have Come Into Existence In The New World.

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.

I Like A Man Who Grins When He Fights.

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

Personally I Think That Private Property Has A Right To Be Defended. Our Civilisation Is Built Up On Property, And Can Only Be Defended By Private Property.

A Vocabulary Of Truth And Simplicity Will Be Of Service Throughout Your Life.

Even Fools Are Right Sometimes.

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

Thus Ended The Great American Civil War, Which Must Upon The Whole Be Considered The Noblest And Least Avoidable Of All The Great Mass Conflicts Of Which Till Then There Was Record.

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.'

Politics Are Very Much Like War. We May Even Have To Use Poison Gas At Times.

There Is A Place For Everyone, Man And Woman, Old And Young, Hale And Halt; Service In A Thousand Forms Is Open. There Is No Room Now For The Dilettante, The Weakling, For The Shirker, Or The Sluggard. From The Highest To The Humblest Tasks, All Are Of Equal Honor; All Have Their Part To Play.

Success And Happiness Spring From Facing Failure After Failure With Enthusiasm.

Can A Nation Remain Healthy, Can All Nations Draw Together In A World Whose Brightest Stars Are Film Stars?

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.

I Would Tell Myself That I Was About To Address The Largest Mass Assembly Of Idiots Ever Gathered In The History Of Mankind.

The Golcondas Were Considered Incomparably The Best Team In Southern India ... [but] We Defeated [them] By 9 Goals To 3. On Succeeding Days We Made Short Work Of All Other Opponents, And Established The Record, Never Since Broken, Of Winning A First-class Tournament Within Fifty Days Of Landing In India.

The Chinese Said Of Themselves Several Thousand Years Ago: China Is A Sea That Salts All The Waters That Flow Into It. Theres Another Chinese Saying About Their Country Which Is Much More Modernit Dates Only From The Fourth Century. This Is The Saying: The Tail Of China Is Large And Will Not Be Wagged. I Like That One. The British Democracy Approves The Principles Of Movable Party Heads And Unwaggable National Tails. It Is Due To The Working Of These Important Forces That I Have The Honour To Be Addressing You At This Moment.

Immense Deposits Of Kimmeridge Clay, Containing The Oil-bearing Bands Or Seams, Stretch Across England From Dorsetshire To Lincolnshire. [an Early Political Recognition Of The Native Resource. The Geological Survey Had Identified The Inflammable Oil Shale In Reports Since At Least 1888.]

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.

Woe Betide The Leaders Now Perched On Their Dizzy Pinnacles Of Triumph If They Cast Away At The Conference Table What The Soldiers Had Won On A Hundred Bloodsoaked Battlefields.

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

We Are Waiting For The Long-promised Invasion. So Are The Fishes.

The United States Stands At The Pinnacle Of World Power. This Is A Solemn Moment For The American Democracy. For With Primacy In Power Is Joined An Awe-inspiring Accountability For The Future.

Life Is A Test And This World A Place Of Trial. Always The Problems - Or It May Be The Same Problem - Will Be Presented To Every Generation In Different Forms.

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

Before Alamein We Never Had A Victory. After Alamein We Never Had A Defeat.

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.

How Fortunate It Was For The World That When These Great Trials Came Upon It There Was A Generation That Terror Could Not Conquer And Brutal Violence Could Not Enslave.

I Like Things To Happen, And If They Don't Happen I Like To Make Them Happen.

Make Things Happen

We Shall Not Flag Nor Fail. We Shall Go On To The End.

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

He Is Like A Female Llama Surprised In Her Bath.

I Only Believe In Statistics That I Doctored Myself

Just To Paint Is Great Fun. The Colours Are Lovely To Look At And Delicious To Squeeze Out. Matching Them, However Crudely, With What You See Is Fascinating And Absolutely Absorbing.

Nothing Will Bring American Sympathy Along With Us So Much As American Blood Shed In The Field.

It Seems To Me That The Moment Has Come When The Question Of Bombing Of German Cities Simply For The Sake Of Increasing The Terror, Though Under Other Pretexts, Should Be Reviewed...i Feel The Need For More Precise Concentration Upon Military Objectives, Such As Oil And Communications Behind The Immediate Battle-zone, Rather Than On Mere Acts Of Terror And Wanton Destruction, However Impressive.

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.

No Part Of The Education Of A Politician Is More Indispensable Than The Fighting Of Elections.

Difficulties Mastered Are Opportunities Won.

Unless Some Effective World Supergovernment For The Purpose Of Preventing War Can Be Set Up ... The Prospects For Peace And Human Progress Are Dark ....if .... It Is Found Possible To Build A World Organization Of Irresistible Force And Inviolable Authority For The Purpose Of Securing Peace, There Are No Limits To The Blessings Which All Men Enjoy And Share.

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

No One Should Waste A Day.

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

Fancy Cutting Down All Those Beautiful Trees...to Make Pulp For Those Bloody Newspapers, And Calling It Civilisation.

I Feel Devoutly Thankful To Have Been Born Fond Of Writing.

As Long As We Have Faith In Our Own Cause And An Unconquerable Will To Win, Victory Will Not Be Denied Us.

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.

Praise The Humanities, My Boy. That'll Make Them Think You're Broadminded!

The English Know How To Make The Best Of Things. Their So-called Muddling Through Is Simply Skill At Dealing With The Inevitable.

Make Sure That The Beer - Four Pints A Week - Goes To The Troops Under Fire Before Any Of The Parties In The Rear Get A Drop.

The Empires Of The Future Are The Empires Of The Mind.

Russia Is A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma.

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

No One Saves Us But Ourselves. No One Can And No One May. We Ourselves Must Walk The Path. Some Of Us Think Holding On Makes Us Strong; But Sometimes It Is Letting Go. Continuous Effort - Not Strength Or Intelligence - Is The Key To Unlocking Our Potential.

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

The Unnatural And Increasingly Rapid Growth Of The Feeble-minded And Insane Classes, Coupled As It Is With Steady Restriction Among All The Thrifty, Energetic And Superior Stocks Constitutes A National And Race Danger Which Is Impossible To Exaggerate. I Feel That The Source From Which The Stream Of Madness Is Fed Should Be Cut Off And Sealed Before Another Year Has Passed.

Success Is Never Final.

Congratulations

Mr Churchill, To What Do You Attribute Your Success In Life? Conservation Of Energy. Never Stand Up When You Can Sit Down. And Never Sit Down When You Can Lie Down.

If This Is A Blessing, It Is Certainly Very Well Disguised.

It Is More Agreeable To Have The Power To Give Than To Receive.

It Excites World Wonder In The Parliamentary Countries That We Should Build A Chamber, Starting Afresh, Which Can Only Seat Two-thirds Of Its Members. It Is Difficult To Explain This To Those Who Do Not Know Our Ways. They Cannot Easily Be Made To Understand Why We Consider That The Intensity, Passion, Intimacy, Informality And Spontaneity Of Our Debates Constitute The Personality Of The House Of Commons And Endow It At Once With Its Focus And Its Strength.

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

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

Of All The Talents Bestowed Upon Men, None Is So Precious As The Gift Of Oratory !!

Maybe" When It Seems The Entire World Is Shouting "no!

I'm So Bored With It All.

When You Are Winning A War Almost Everything That Happens Can Be Claimed To Be Right And Wise.

When The War Of The Giants Is Over The Wars Of The Pygmies Will Begin.

On 17th July There Came To Us At Potsdam The Eagerly-awaited News Of The Trial Of The Atomic Bomb In The [new] Mexican Desert. Success Beyond All Dreams Crowded This Sombre, Magnificent Venture Of Our American Allies. The Detailed Reports ... Could Leave No Doubt In The Minds Of The Very Few Who Were Informed, That We Were In The Presence Of A New Factor In Human Affairs, And Possessed Of Powers Which Were Irresistible.

Hatred Plays The Same Part In Government As Acid In Chemistry.

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

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

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 Expect You Will Find That Change Is The Best Kind Of Rest.

You See These Dictators On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police ... Yet In Their Hearts There Is Unspoken Fear. They Are Afraid Of Words And Thoughts: Words Spoken Abroad, Thoughts Stirring At Home -- All The More Powerful Because Forbidden -- Terrify Them. A Little Mouse Of Thought Appears In The Room, And Even The Mightiest Potentates Are Thrown Into Panic.

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.

Trending Author

Jean-Claude Van Damme

Sergio Aragones

Joseph Campbell

Category