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Perfecting And Selling Your

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Perfecting And Selling Your Writing Is A Lifelong Task. If You Are A Persistent Writer, You Can Expect Your Abilities To Improve With Time. Success Is The Ability To Go From Failure To Failure Without Losing Your Enthusiasm.

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Study History, Study History. In History Lie All The Secrets Of Statecraft.

I Cannot Help Reflecting That If My Father Had Been American And My Mother British Instead Of The Other Way Around, I Might Have Gotten Here On My Own.

Armed With A Paint-box, One Cannot Be Bored, One Cannot Be Left At A Loose End, One Cannot 'have Several Days On One's Hands.

I Could Not Help Reflecting That The Bullet Which Had Struck The Chestnut [horse] Had Certainly Passed Within A Foot Of My Head. So At Any Rate I Had Been 'under Fire.' That Was Something.

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

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

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

A Good Speech Should Be Like A Woman's Skirt: Long Enough To Cover The Subject And Short Enough To Create Interest

We Shape Our Homes And Then Our Homes Shape Us.

Interior Design

An Iron Curtain Has Descended Over Europe.

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.

A Lie Gets Halfway Around The World Before The Truth Has A Chance To Get Its Pants On.

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

Good Night, Then - Sleep To Gather Strength For The Morning. For The Morning Will Come. Brightly Will It Shine On The Brave And True, Kindly On All Who Suffer For The Cause, Glorious Upon The Tombs Of Heroes. Thus Will Shine The Dawn.

One Is Quite Astonished To Find How Many Things There Are In The Landscape, And In Every Object In It, One Never Noticed Before. And This Is A Tremendous New Pleasure And Interest Which Invests Every Walk Or Drive With An Added Object. So Many Colours On The Hillside, Each Different In Shadow And In Sunlight; Such Brilliant Reflections In The Pool, Each A Key Lower Than What They Repeat; Such Lovely Lights Gilding Or Silvering Surface Or Outline, All Tinted Exquisitely With Pale Colour, Rose, Orange, Green Or Violet.

We Know Enough To Be Sure That The Scientific Achievements Of The Next Fifty Years Will Be Far Greater, More Rapid, And More Surprising, Than Those We Have Already Experienced. ... Wireless Telephones And Television, Following Naturally Upon The Their Present Path Of Development, Would Enable Their Owner To Connect Up To Any Room Similarly Equipped And Hear And Take Part In The Conversation As Well As If He Put His Head In Through The Window.

The Question Which We Must Ask Ourselves Is Not Whether We Like Or Do Not Like What Is Going On, But What We Are Going To Do About It.

They Say That Nobody Is Perfect. Then They Tell You Practice Makes Perfect. I Wish They'd Make Up Their Minds.

The United States Abd Usually Be Reiled On To Do The Right Thing, But Only After They Have Tried All The Other Alternatives.

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

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.

Playing Golf Is Like Chasing A Quinine Pill Around A Cow Pasture.

We Are Shaping The World Faster Than We Can Change Ourselves, And We Are Applying To The Present The Habits Of The Past.

A Gentleman Is A Man Who Is Only Rude When He Intends To Be.

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

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

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

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

The Pictorial Battlefield Becomes A Sea Of Mud Mercifully Veiled By The Fog Of War.

Painting A Picture Is Like Trying To Fight A Battle.

The Struggle Which Is Now Beginning Between The Zionist And Bolshevik Jews Is Little Less Than A Struggle For The Soul Of The Jewish People.

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

I Was Not The Lion, But It Fell To Me To Give The Lion's Roar.

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

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.

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.

There Is No Worse Mistake In Public Leadership Than To Hold Out False Hope Soon To Be Swept Away.

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.

Censure Is Often Useful, Praise Is Often Deceitful.

It Would Be An Inconvenient Rule If Nothing Could Be Done Until Everything Can Be Done.

When Someone Says To Me, Ugh, You Smoke. I Reply, Ugh, You're Ugly. I Can Quit Smoking.

We Must Have A Better Word Than "prefabricated", Why Not "ready-made"?

There Is Required For The Composition Of A Great Commander Not Only Massive Common Sense And Reasoning Power, Not Only Imagination, But Also An Element Of Legerdemain, An Original And Sinister Touch, Which Leaves The Enemy Puzzled As Well As Beaten.

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.

A Lady Came Up To Me One Day And Said 'sir! You Are Drunk', To Which I Replied 'i Am Drunk Today Madam, And Tomorrow I Shall Be Sober But You Will Still Be Ugly.

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.]

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

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

Plans Are Of Little Importance, But Planning Is Essential.

The Gift Of A Common Tongue Is A Priceless Inheritance And It May Well Some Day Become The Foundation Of A Common Citizenship.

It So Often Happens That, When Men Are Convinced That They Have To Die, A Desire To Bear Themselves Well And To Leave Life's Stage With Dignity Conquers All Other Sensations.

In Defeat, Unbeatable; In Victor, Unbearable

War Is Mainly A Catalogue Of Blunders.

The Statesman Who Yields To War Fever Must Realise That Once The Signal Is Given, He Is No Longer The Master Of Policy But The Slave Of Unforeseeable And Uncontrollable Events.

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

If You Mean To Profit, Learn To Please.

There Is A Treasure In The Heart Of Every Man If You Can Only Find It

And Do Not Suppose That This Is The End. This Is Only The Beginning Of The Reckoning. This Is Only The First Sip, The First Foretaste Of A Bitter Cup Which Will Be Proffered To Us Year By Year Unless By A Supreme Recovery Of Moral Health And Martial Vigour, We Arise Again And Take Our Stand For Freedom As In The Olden Time.

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

Only Changes In Mindsets Can Extend The Frontiers Of The Possible.

Failure Should Never Go To Heart And Success Should Never Go To Head, Both Makes A Person To Fall In Life.

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

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.

Nothing Makes A Man More Reverent Than A Library.

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

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 We Look To Our Responsibility To The Generations Yet Unborn Who Will Come After Us, How Can We Fail To Recognize That Peace And Freedom Are Inextricably Bound Up One With Another And That The Threat To One Is A Threat To Both

Success Is Often Nothing More Than Moving From One Failure To Another With Undiminished Enthusiasm.

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

Vast And Fearsome As The Human Scene Has Become, Personal Contact Of The Right People, In The Right Places, At The Right Time, May Yet Have A Potent And Valuable Part To Play In The Cause Of Peace Which Is In Our Hearts.

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

Let Our Advance Worrying Become Advance Thinking And Planning.

If The Present Tries To Sit In Judgment Of The Past, It Will Lose The Future.

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.

"mr. Churchill You're Drunk!" Mr. Churchill: "and You, Lady Astor, Are Ugly. As For My Condition, It Will Pass By The Morning. You, However, Will Still Be Ugly.

Life Is Fraught With Opportunities To Keep Your Mouth Shut.

At One Side Of The Palette There Is White, At The Other Black; And Neither Is Ever Used Neat.

We See Nothing But Good And Hope In A Richer, Freer, More Contented European Commonalty. But We Have Our Own Dreams And Our Own Task. We Are With Europe, But Not Of It. We Are Linked, But Not Comprised. We Are Interested And Associated, But Not Absorbed.

The Turkish Government Began And Ruthlessly Carried Out The Infamous Massacre And Deportation Of Armenians In Asia Minor. The Clearance Of The Race From Asia Minor Was About As Complete As Such An Act, On A Scale So Great, Could Well Be.

I Never Slept As Soundly As The Night Following Pearl Harbor. For I Knew That The American Race Would Now Be Entering The War And It Would Never Be The Same.

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

I Have Had A Number Of Threatening Letters Each Week, Some Telling Me The Actual Time And Method Of My Death, And I Don't Like It.

There Is No Such Thing As A Good Tax.

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 A Fateful Fatalistic Apathy.

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

He Is Like A Female Llama Surprised In Her Bath.

Let Us Reconcile Ourselves To The Mysterious Rhythm Of Our Destinies, Such As They Must Be In This World Of Space And Time.

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.

What A Fool I Have Been!

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

Science Bestowed Immense New Powers On Man, And At The Same Time, Created Conditions Which Were Largely Beyond His Comprehension.

We Shall Defend Our Island Whatever The Cost May Be; We Shall Fight On Beaches, Landing Grounds, In Fields, In Streets And On The Hills. We Shall Never Surrender And Even If, Which I Do Not For The Moment Believe, This Island Or A Large Part Of It Were Subjugated And Starving, Then Our Empire Beyond The Seas, Armed And Guarded By The British Fleet, Will Carry On The Struggle Until In God's Good Time The New World With All Its Power And Might, Sets Forth To The Liberation And Rescue Of The Old.

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

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.

Hence We Will Not Say That Greeks Fight Like Heroes, But Heroes Fight Like Greeks.

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

Freedom Of Speech

They Feed The Crocodile In The Hope That He Will Eat Them Last.

I Drink And Smoke And I Am Two Hundred Percent Fit.

Those Who Serve Supreme Causes Must Not Consider What They Can Get But What They Can Give.

You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along.

Law Of Attraction

I Was Born Under The Blue Ridge, And Under That Side Which Is Blue In The Evening Light, In A Wild Land Of Game And Forest And Rushing Waters.

I Cannot Forecast To You The Action Of Russia. It Is A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma: But Perhaps There Is A Key. That Key Is Russian National Interest.

There Is No Merit In Putting Off A War For A Year If, When It Comes, It Is Far Worse Or Much Harder To Win.

Dictators Ride To And Fro Upon Tigers Which They Dare Not Dismount. And The Tigers Are Getting Hungry.

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

Nobody Wants To Intervene In Russian Affairs. Russia Is A Very Large Country, A Very Old Country, A Very Disagreeable Country Inhabited By Immense Numbers Of Ignorant People Largely Possessed Of Lethal Weapons And In A State Of Extreme Disorder. Also Russia Is A Long Way Off.

Sir, We Must Beware Of Needless Innovation, Especially When Guided By Logic.

My Wife And I Tried Two Or Three Times In The Last 40 Years To Have Breakfast Together, But It Was So Disagreeable We Had To Stop.

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.

Before The War It Had Seemed Incredible That Such Terrors And Slaughters, Even If They Began, Could Last More Than A Few Months. After The First Two Years It Was Difficult To Believe That They Would Ever End.

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

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

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

The Cost Of Solving The Comet Mystery Must Be Reckoned Neither In Money Nor In Manpower.

Democracy Means That When There's A Knock In The Door At 3 Am, It's Probably The Milkman.

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.

Plans Are Worthless. Planning Is Priceless.

'keep England White' Is A Good Slogan.

Keep Calm And Carry On.

Keep Calm And Carry On

Criticism Is Easy; Achievement Is Difficult.

If You Go On With This Nuclear Arms Race, All You Are Going To Do Is Make The Rubble Bounce.

To Improve Is To Change; To Be Perfect Is To Change Often.

We Are Not Meant To Find Peace In This World. The Spirit Of Life Cannot Exist Without Effort. Destroy The Rivalries Of Man And Nations And You Will Have Destroyed All That Makes For Betterment And Progress On Earth.

...have The Stresses Of War Been As Bad To You Personally As Carrying Through The Policy Of Collective Farms?

The Head Cannot Take In More Than The Seat Can Endure.

I Devoured Gibbon. I Rode Triumphantly Through It From End To End And Enjoyed It All.

The Facilities For Advanced Education Must Be Evened Out And Multiplied. No One Who Can Take Advantage Of A Higher Education Should Be Denied This Chance. You Cannot Conduct A Modern Community Except With An Adequate Supply Of Persons Upon Whose Education, Whether Humane, Technical, Or Scientific, Much Time And Money Have Been Spent.

Personal Initiative, Competitive Selection, The Profit Motive, Corrected By Failure And The Infinite Process Of Good Housekeeping And The Personal Ingenuity-here Constitute The Life Of A Free Society.

Everyone Is In Favor Of Free Speech. Hardly A Day Passes Without Its Being Extolled, But Some People's Idea Of It Is That They Are Free To Say What They Like, But If Anyone Else Says Anything Back, That Is An Outrage.

Nothing Is More Dangerous In Wartime Than To Live In The Temperamental Atmosphere Of A Gallup Poll, Always Feeling Ones Pulse And Taking Ones Temperature. I See That A Speaker At The Week-end Said That This Was A Time When Leaders Should Keep Their Ears To The Ground. All I Can Say Is That The British Nation Will Find It Very Hard To Look Up To Leaders Who Are Detected In That Somewhat Ungainly Posture.

Doubts Could Be Swept Away Only By Deeds.

I Have Left The Obvious, Essential Fact To This Point, Namely, That It Is The Russian Armies Who Have Done The Main Work In Tearing The Guts Out Of The German Army. In The Air And On The Oceans We Could Maintain Our Place, But There Was No Force In The World Which Could Have Been Called Into Being, Except After Several More Years, That Would Have Been Able To Maul And Break The German Army Unless It Had Been Subjected To The Terrible Slaughter And Manhandling That Has Fallen To It Through The Strength Of The Russian Soviet Armies.

Before You Can Inspire With Emotion, You Must Be Swamped With It Yourself. Before You Can Move Their Tears, Your Own Must Flow. To Convince Them, You Must Yourself, Believe.

Courage Is The Greatest Virtue Because It Guarantees All The Rest.

When The Eagles Are Silent, The Parrots Begin To Jabber.

Young People At Universities Study To Achieve Knowledge And Not To Learn A Trade. We Must All Learn How To Support Ourselves, But We Must Also Learn How To Live. We Need A Lot Of Engineers In The Modern World, But We Do Not Want A World Of Modern Engineers.

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

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.

Science Burrows Its Insulted Head In The Filth Of Slaughterous Inventions.

When A Nation Has Allowed Itself To Fall Under A Tyrannical Regime, It Cannot Be Absolved From The Faults Due To The Guilt Of That Regime.

The Greatest Advances In Human Civilization Have Come When We Recovered What We Had Lost: When We Learned The Lessons Of History.

The Price Of Greatness Is Responsibility.

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

My Tastes Are Simple. I Like Only The Very Best.

True Genius Resides In The Capacity For Evaluation Of Uncertain, Hazardous, And Conflicting Information.

You Ask What The Aim Is? I Tell You It Is Victory - Total Victory.

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

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.

Russian May Seem Narrow-minded, Impudent, Or Even Stupid People, But Can Only Pray For Those Who Are Against Them.

The Substance Of The Eminent Socialist Gentlemen's Speech Is That Making A Profit Is A Sin. It Is My Belief That The Real Sin Is Taking A Loss!

Unless We Establish Some Form Of World Government, It Will Not Be Possible For Us To Avert A World War Iii In The Future.

World Government

When I'm In Office I Always Keep Members Of Parliament Talking. If They Stopped They Might Start Thinking.

The Person Must Be Blind, Indeed, Who Can Not See, That Here On Earth A Great Project, A Great Plan, Is Executed, May Work On The Realization Of Which We Participate As Faithful Servants.

Faithful Servants

A Single Glass Of Champagne Imparts A Feeling Of Exhilaration. The Nerves Are Braced; The Imagination Is Stirred, The Wits Become More Nimble.

Champagne Drinking

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

A Sheep In Sheep's Clothing.

It Is My Belief, You Cannot Deal With The Most Serious Things In The World Unless You Understand The Most Amusing.

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.

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

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.

Never Flinch, Never Weary, Never Despair.

Of All The Branches Of Men In The Forces There Is None Which Shows More Devotion And Faces Grimmer Perils Than The Submariners.

Go Into The Sunshine And Be Happy With What You See.

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

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

The English Never Draw A Line Without Blurring It.

One Day President Roosevelt Told Me That He Was Asking Publicly For Suggestions About What The War Should Be Called. I Said At Once 'the Unnecessary War'.

The Length Of This Document Defends It Well Against The Risk Of Its Being Read.

Most Of The World's Work Is Done By People Who Don't Feel Very Well.

The Painter Wanders And Loiters Contentedly From Place To Place, Always On The Lookout For Some Brilliant Butterfly Of A Picture Which Can Be Caught And Carried Safely Home.

History Is Written By The Victors.

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

Now This Is Not The End. It Is Not Even The Beginning Of The End. But It Is, Perhaps, The End Of The Beginning.

Golf. Trying To Knock A Tiny Ball Into An Even Smaller Hole With Implements Ill Suited To The Purpose.

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

The Poor Girl Does Not Know How To Have A Conversation. Unfortunately, She Does Know How To Speak.

Everybody Has Always Underrated The Russians. They Keep Their Own Secrets Alike From Foe And Friends.

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.

We Are Happier In Many Ways When We Are Old Than When We Were Young. The Young Sow Wild Oats. The Old Grow Sage.

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.

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.

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

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

If You Travel The Earth, You Will Find It Is Largely Divided Into Two Classes Of People-people Who Say 'i Wonder Why Such And Such Is Not Done" And People Who Say "now Who Is Going To Prevent Me From Doing That Thing?"

What Is Our Policy? ... To Wage War Against A Monstrous Tyranny, Never Surpassed In The Dark, Lamentable Catalogue Of Human Crime.

Greatest Victory

The Jury System Has Come To Stand For All We Mean By English Justice. The Scrutiny Of 12 Honest Jurors Provides Defendants And Plaintiffs Alike A Safeguard From Arbitrary Perversion Of The Law.

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

When I Warned Them [the French] That Britain Would Fight On Alone Whatever They Did, Their Generals Told Their Prime Minister And His Divided Cabinet, In Three Weeks England Will Have Her Neck Wrung Like A Chicken. Some Chicken! Some Neck!

Rugby Is A Hooligans Game Played By Gentlemen.

The Best Argument Against Democracy Is A Five-minute Conversation With The Average Voter.

It Is Better To Be Frightened Now Than Killed Hereafter

Advertising Nourishes The Consuming Power Of Men.

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

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.

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

I Never Worry About Action, But Only Inaction.

Here Churchill Repeats With Approval A Statement He Had First Made In January, 1930 "at A Meeting At The Cannon Street Hotel." "sooner Or Later You Will Have To Crush Gandhi And The Indian Congress And All They Stand For."

Although Always Prepared For Martyrdom, I Preferred That It Should Be Postponed.

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.

Who Is Not Liberal When Young, Does Not Have A Heart. Who Is Not Conservative When Old, Does Not Have A Brain.

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