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Never, Never, Never Believe Any War Will Be Smooth And Easy, Or That Anyone Who Embarks On The Strange Voyage Can Measure The Tides And Hurricanes He Will Encounter. The Statesman Who Yields To War Fever Must Realize That Once The Signal Is Given, He Is No Longer The Master Of Policy But The Slave Of Unforeseeable And Uncontrollable Events.

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Never, Never, Never Believe

Winston Churchill

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Never, Never, Never Believe Any War Will Be Smooth And Easy, Or That Anyone Who Embarks On The Strange Voyage Can Measure The Tides And Hurricanes He Will Encounter. The Statesman Who Yields To War Fever Must Realize That Once The Signal Is Given, He Is No Longer The Master Of Policy But The Slave Of Unforeseeable And Uncontrollable Events.

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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.

It Is A Fine Thing To Be Honest, But It Is Also Very Important To Be Right.

When I Look Round To See How We Can Win The War, I See That There Is Only One Sure Path . . . And That Is Absolutely Devastating, Exterminating Attack By Very Heavy Bombers From This Country Upon The Nazi Homeland.

Historians Are Apt To Judge War Ministers Less By The Victories Achieved Under Their Direction Than By The Political Results Which Flowed From Them. Judged By That Standard, I Am Not Sure That I Shall Be Held To Have Done Very Well.

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

From Stettin In The Baltic To Trieste In The Atlantic, An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across The Continent. Behind The Line Lie All The Capitals Of The Ancient States Of Central And Eastern Europe... All These Famous Cities And The Populations Around Them Lie In What I Must Call The Soviet Sphere, And All Are Subject In One Form Or Another, Not Only To Soviet Influence But To A Very High And, In Many Cases, Increasing Measure Of Control From Moscow.

It Is Not Always Possible To Have Everything Go As One Likes. In Working With Allies, It Sometimes Happens That They Develop Opinions Of Their Own

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He Is Like A Female Llama Surprised In Her Bath.

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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.

A Pessimist Sees The Difficulty In Every Opportunity; An Optimist Sees The Opportunity In Every Difficulty.

Courage Is What It Takes To Stand Up And Speak; Courage Is Also What It Takes To Sit Down And Listen.

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

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

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.

It Is A Mistake To Look Too Far Ahead. Only One Link Of The Chain Of Destiny Can Be Handled At A Time.

I Only Believe In Statistics That I Doctored Myself

An American Diplomat Is Sometimes Like A Bull Who Carries His Own China Shop Around With Him.

Rugby Is A Hooligans Game Played By Gentlemen.

'no Comment' Is A Splendid Expression. I Am Using It Again And Again.

If You Destroy A Free Market You Create A Black Market.

This Is No War Of Chieftains Or Of Princes, Of Dynasties Or National Ambition; It Is A War Of Peoples And Of Causes. There Are Vast Numbers, Not Only In This Island But In Every Land, Who Will Render Faithful Service In This War, But Whose Names Will Never Be Known, Whose Deeds Will Never Be Recorded. This Is A War Of The Unknown Warriors

Opening Amenities Are Often Opening Inanities.

Building Slow Destroyers ! One Might As Well Breed Slow Race Horses.

There Is No Surer Method Of Economizing And Saving Money Than In The Reduction Of The Number Of Officials.

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

There Is A Hush Over All Europe, Nay, Over All The World. Alas! It Is The Hush Of Suspense, And In Many Lands It Is The Hush Of Fear. Listen! No, Listen Carefully, I Think I Hear Somethingyes, There It Was Quite Clear. Dont You Hear It? It Is The Tramp Of Armies Crunching The Gravel Of The Paradegrounds, Splashing Through Rain-soaked Fields, The Tramp Of Two Million German Soldiers And More Than A Million Italiansgoing On Maneuversyes, Only On Maneuvers!

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

[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.

No Sky Is Heavy If The Heart Be Light

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.

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

The English Are Loth To Express Their Feelings, But In My Stall In The Choir I Could Feel The Pent-up, Passionate Emotion, And Also The Fear Of The Congregation, Not Of Death Or Wounds Or Material Loss, But Of Defeat And The Final Ruin Of Britain.

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?

In War As In Life, It Is Often Necessary When Some Cherished Scheme Has Failed, To Take Up The Best Alternative Open, And If So, It Is Folly Not To Work For It With All Your Might.

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.

We Shall Come Through! We Cannot Tell When, We Cannot Tell How, But We Shall Come Through.

Individual Moslems May Show Splendid Qualities. Thousands Become The Brave And Loyal Soldiers Of The Queen: All Know How To Die: But The Influence Of The Religion Paralyses The Social Development Of Those Who Follow It. No Stronger Retrograde Force Exists In The World. Far From Being Moribund, Mohammedanism Is A Militant And Proselytizing Faith. It Has Already Spread Throughout Central Africa, Raising Fearless Warriors At Every Step; And Were It Not That Christianity Is Sheltered In The Strong Arms Of Science, The Science Against Which It Had Vainly Struggled, The Civilisation Of Modern Europe Might Fall, As Fell The Civilisation Of Ancient Rome.

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