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Schools Have Not Necessarily Much To Do With Education...they Are Mainly Institutions Of Control Where Certain Basic Habits Must Be Inculcated In The Young. Education Is Quite Different And Has Little Place In School.

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Schools Have Not Necessarily

Winston Churchill

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Schools Have Not Necessarily Much To Do With Education...they Are Mainly Institutions Of Control Where Certain Basic Habits Must Be Inculcated In The Young. Education Is Quite Different And Has Little Place In School.

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Here Was A Place Where Real Things Were Going On. Here Was A Scene Of Vital Action. Here Was A Place Where Anything Might Happen. Here Was A Place Where Something Would Certainly Happen. Here I Might Leave My Bones.

I Hope I Shall Never See The Day When The Force Of Right Is Deprived Of The Right Of Force.

If Hitler Invaded Hell, I'd Find Something Nice To Say About The Devil Himself.

For My Part, I Consider That It Will Be Found Much Better By All Parties To Leave The Past To History, Especially As I Propose To Write That History Myself.

English Literature Is A Glorious Inheritance Which Is Open To All - There Are No Barriers, No Coupons, And No Restrictions. In The English Language And In Its Great Writers There Are Great Riches And Treasures, Of Which, Of Course, The Bible And Shakespeare Stand Along On The Highest Platform.

If You Recognize Anyone It Does Not Mean You Like Them.

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

I Am Certainly Not One Of Those Who Need To Be Prodded. In Fact, If Anything, I Am The Prod.

There Comes Into The Life Of Every Man A Task For Which He And He Alone Is Uniquely Suited. What A Shame If That Moment Finds Him Either Unwilling Or Unprepared For That Which Would Become His Finest Hour.

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

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

I'm Finished ... I'm Done. What I Want Above All Things Is To Take Some Active Part In Beating The Germans ... I'd Go Out To The Front At Once.

There Is No Such Thing As Public Opinion. There Is Only Published Opinion.

When You're 20 You Care What Everyone Thinks, When You're 40 You Stop Caring What Everyone Thinks, When You're 60 You Realize No One Was Ever Thinking About You In The First Place. You Have Enemies? Good. That Means You've Stood Up For Something, Sometime In Your Life.

Thinking About You

Nothing Is More Dangerous In Wartime Than To Live In The Temperamental Atmosphere Of A Gallup Poll, Always Feeling One's Pulse And Taking One's Temperature.

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.

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.

Success Always Demands A Greater Effort.

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

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

Remember Gentleman, It's Not Just France We're Fighting For, It's Champagne!

I Had No Idea Of The Enormous And Unquestionably Helpful Part That Humbug Plays In The Social Life Of Great Peoples Dwelling In A State Of Democratic Freedom.

One Of The Most Important Signs Of The Existence Of A Democracy Is That When There Is A Knock At The Door At 5 In The Morning, One Is Completely Certain That It Is The Milkman.

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

The Lights Of Saxon England Were Going Out, And In The Gathering Darkness A Gentle, Grey-beard Prophet Foretold The End. When On His Death-bed Edward Spoke Of A Time Of Evil That Was Coming Upon The Land His Inspired Mutterings Struck Terror Into The Hearers.

Writing ... It Begins As An Amusement, Then It Becomes A Mistress, Then A Master, And Finally A Tyrant.

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.

No Idea Is So Outlandish That It Should Not Be Considered With A Searching But At The Same Time A Steady Eye.

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

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.

It Is One Thing To See The Forward Path And Another To Be Able To Take It. But It Is Better To Have An Ambitious Plan Than None At All.

I'm Bored With It All. Before Slipping Into A Coma. He Died 9 Days Later.

Many Forms Of Government Have Been Tried, And Will Be Tried In This World Of Sin And Woe. No One Pretends That Democracy Is Perfect Or All-wise. Indeed, It Has Been Said That Democracy Is The Worst Form Of Government Except All Those Others That Have Been

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

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

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

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.

Men And Kings Must Be Judged In The Testing Moments Of Their Lives. Courage Is Rightly Esteemed The First Of Human Qualities, Because, As Has Been Said, It Is The Quality Which Guarantees All Others.

Twice In My Lifetime The Long Arm Of Destiny Has Reached Across The Oceans And Involved The Entire Life And Manhood Of The United States In A Deadly Struggle.there Was No Use In Saying We Don't Want It; We Won

An Efficient And A Successful Administration Manifests Itself Equally In Small As In Great Matters.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

If You Will Not Fight For Right When You Can Easily Win Without Bloodshed; If You Will Not Fight When Your Victory Will Be Sure And Not Too Costly; You May Come To The Moment When You Will Have To Fight With All Odds Against You And Only A Precarious Chance Of Survival. There May Be Even A Worse Fate, You May Have To Fight When There Is No Hope Of Victory, Because It Is Better To Perish Than To Live As Slaves.

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

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

There Are No Limits To The Majestic Future Which Lies Before The Mighty Expanse Of Canada With Its Virile, Aspiring, Cultured, And Generous-hearted People.

We Sit In Calm, Airy, Silent Rooms Opening Upon Sunlit And Embowered Lawns, Not A Sound Except Of Summer And Of Husbandry Disturbs The Peace; But Seven Million Men, Any Ten Thousand Of Whom Could Have Annihilated The Ancient Armies, Are In Ceaseless Battle From The Alps To The Ocean.

History With Its Flickering Lamp Stumbles Along The Trail Of The Past, Trying To Reconstruct Its Scenes, To Revive Its Echoes, And Kindle With Pale Gleams The Passion Of Former Days. What Is The Worth Of All This? The Only Guide To A Man Is His Conscience; The Only Shield To His Memory Is The Rectitude And Sincerity Of His Actions. It Is Very Imprudent To Walk Through Life Without This Shield, Because We Are So Often Mocked By The Failure Of Our Hopes And The Upsetting Of Our Calculations; But With This Shield, However The Fates May Play, We March Always In The Ranks Of Honor.

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.

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

The Press Is Easier To Strangle Than To Look In The Eyes.

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

Don't Be Content To Be The Chip Off The Old Block - Be The Old Block Itself.

May It Not Also Be That The Cause Of Civilization Itself Will Be Defended By The Skill And Devotion Of A Few Thousand Airmen? There Never Has Been, I Suppose, In All The World, In All The History Of War, Such An Opportunity For Youth. The Knights Of The Round Table, The Crusaders, All Fall Back Into The Past.

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

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.

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

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

No One Should Waste A Day.

I Hate Nobody Except Hitler--and That Is Professional.

Even The Most Eminent Persons Are Subject To The Laws Of Gravity.

When I Get To Heaven I Mean To Spend A Considerable Portion Of My First Million Years In Painting, And So Get To The Bottom Of The Subject.

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.

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

In Order To Become A Great Man, One Must First Be A Great Rascal.

You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along.

Law Of Attraction

By Being So Long In The Lowest Form [at Harrow] I Gained An Immense Advantage Over The Cleverer Boys. . . . I Got Into My Bones The Essential Structure Of The Ordinary British Sentence - Which Is A Noble Thing. Naturally I Am Biased In Favor Of Boys Learning English; I Would Make Them All Learn English: And Then I Would Let The Clever Ones Learn Latin As An Honor, And Greek As A Treat.

No Socialist Government Conducting The Entire Life And Industry Of The Country Could Afford To Allow Free, Sharp Or Violently Worded Expressions Of Public Discontent. They Would Have To Fall Back On Some Form Of Gestapo, No Doubt Very Humanly Directed In The First Instance.

Socialist Government

The World Looks With Some Awe Upon A Man Who Appears Unconcernedly Indifferent To Home, Money, Comfort, Rank, Or Even Power And Fame. The World Feels Not Without A Certain Apprehension, That Here Is Someone Outside Its Jurisdiction; Someone Before Whom Its Allurements May Be Spread In Vain; Some One Strangely Enfranchised, Untamed, Untrammelled By Convention, Moving Independent Of The Ordinary Currents Of Human Action.

From The Days Of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, And Ema Goldman, This World Conspiracy Has Been Steadily Growing. This Conspiracy Played A Definite Recognizable Role In The Tragedy Of The French Revolution. It Has Been The Mainspring Of Every Subversive Movement During The 19th Century. And Now At Last 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 Head And Have Become The Undisputed Masters Of That Enormous Empire.

The Rest And The Spell Of Sleep In The Middle Of The Day Refresh The Human Frame Far More Than A Long Night. We Were Not Made By Nature To Work, Or Even To Play, From Eight O'clock In The Morning Till Midnight. We Throw A Strain Upon Our System Which Is Unfair And Improvident. For Every Purpose Of Business Or Pleasure, Mental Or Physical, We Ought To Break Our Days And Our Marches Into Two.

"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.

The Navy Can Lose Us The War, But Only The Air Force Can Win It. Therefore Our Supreme Effort Must Be To Gain Overwhelming Mastery In The Air. The Fighters Are Our Salvation . . . But The Bombers Alone Provide The Means Of Victory. . . . In No Other Way At Present Visible Can We Hope To Overcome The Immense Military Power Of Germany.

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.

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.

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.

It Is Not Given To Us To Peer Into The Mysteries Of The Future. Still, I Avow My Hope And Faith, Sure And Inviolate, That In The Days To Come The British And American Peoples Will For Their Own Safety And For The Good Of All Walk Together Side By Side In Majesty, In Justice, And In Peace.

When You Have To Kill A Man, It Costs Nothing To Be Polite.

Advertising Mourishes The Consuming Power Of Men. It Sets Up Before A Man The Goal Of A Better Home, Better Clothing, Better Food For Himself And His Family. It Spurs Individual Exertion And Greater Production.

Don't Give Your Sons Money. Give Them Horses. Many A Good Son Has Been Ruined Through The Acquisition Of Money But No Good Son Has Been Ruined Through The Acquisition Of Horses. Unless They Fell And Broke Their Neck, Which When Taken At The Gallop Is A Very Good Death To Die.

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.

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.

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

The Tank Was Originally Invented To Clear A Way For The Infantry In The Teeth Of Machine-gun Fire. Now It Is The Infantry Who Will Have To Clear A Way For The Tanks.

Science Should Be On Tap, Not On Top.

There Is Scarcely Anything More Important In The Government Of Men Than The Exact - I Will Ever Say Pedantic - Observance Of The Regular Forms By Which The Guilt Or Innocence Of Accused Persons Is Determined.

Too Often The Strong, Silent Man Is Silent Only Because He Does Not Know What To Say, And Is Reputed Strong Only Because He Has Remained Silent.

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

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.

Don't Deliver An Essay With So Many Points. No One Can Absorb It. Just Say One Thing... Of Course, You Can Say The Point In Many Different Ways Over And Over Again With Different Illustrations.

I Was Very Glad That Mr. Attlee Described My Speeches In The War As Expressing The Will Not Only Of Parliament But Of The Whole Nation. Their Will Was Resolute And Remorseless And, As It Proved, Unconquerable. It Fell To Me To Express It, And If I Found The Right Words You Must Remember That I Have Always Earned My Living By My Pen And By My Tongue. It Was A Nation And Race Dwelling All Round The Globe That Had The Lion Heart. I Had The Luck To Be Called Upon To Give The Roar.

Plans Are Of Little Importance, But Planning Is Essential.

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

Singapore Could Only Be Taken After A Siege By An Army Of At Least 50,000 Men. It Is Not Considered Possible That The Japanese Would Embark On Such A Mad Enterprise.

It Is A Socialist Idea That Making Profits Is A Vice; I Consider The Real Vice Is Making Losses.

Although Personally I Am Quite Content With Existing Explosives, I Feel We Must Not Stand In The Path Of Improvement.

Is It Possible To Get Another Key? I Think I've Left Mine In The Room.

Leadership Is The Intelligent Use Of Power.

Thus, Be Every Device From The Stick To The Carrot, The Emaciated Austrian Donkey Is Made To Pull The Nazi Barrow Up An Ever-steepening Hill.

Air Power May Either End War Or End Civilization.

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

Air Superiority Is The Ultimate Expression Of Military Power.

War Is Mainly A Catalogue Of Blunders.

Leave To The Masters Of Art Trained By A Lifetime Of Devotion The Wonderful Process Of Picture-building And Picture Creation. Go Out Into The Sunlight And Be Happy With What You See.

It Is All True, Or It Ought To Be; And More And Better Besides.

I Am A Child Of The House Of Commons. I Was Brought Up In My Fathers House To Believe In Democracy. Trust The Peoplethat Was His Message.

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.

Great And Good Are Seldom The Same Man.

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

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

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

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.

There Is No Sphere Of Human Thought In Which It Is Easier To Show Superficial Cleverness And The Appearance Of Superior Wisdom Than In Discussing Questions Of Currency And Exchange

Rules Were Made For Fools To Follow And Wise Men To Be Guided By.

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

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.

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

Dear Citizen, If You Were My Love, I'd Stole Your Money!' Admin If You Were My Love, I Would Ask You For Divorce And Spousal Support!

These, Gentlemen, Are The Opinions Upon Which I Base My Facts.

What Is The True And Original Root Of Dutch Aversion To British Rule? It Is The Abiding Fear And Hatred Of The Movement That Seeks To Place The Native On A Level With The White Man ... The Kaffir Is To Be Declared The Brother Of The European, To Be Constituted His Legal Equal, To Be Armed With Political Rights.

You Do Your Worst, And We'll Do Our Best.

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

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

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.

The Government Of India Had Imprisoned Mr. Gandhi And They Had Been Sitting Outside His Cell Door Begging Him To Help Them Out Of Their Difficulties.

He [president Franklin D. Roosevelt] Died In Harness, And We May Well Say In Battle Harness, Like His Soldiers, Sailors And Airmen Who Died Side By Side With Ours And Carrying Out Their Tasks To The End All Over The World. What An Enviable Death Was His.

Oh, What Is The Matter With Poor Puggy-wug? Pet Him And Kiss Him And Give Him A Hug. Run And Fetch Him A Suitable Drug. Wrap Him Up Tenderly All In A Rug. That Is The Way To Cure Puggy-wug.

The Fact That In Mohammedan Law Every Woman Must Belong To Some Man As His Absolute Property - Either As A Child, A Wife, Or A Concubine - Must Delay The Final Extinction Of Slavery Until The Faith Of Islam Has Ceased To Be A Great Power Among Men.

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.

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.

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

My Rule Of Life Prescribed As An Absolutely Sacred Rite Smoking Cigars.

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

I Want No Criticism Of America At My Table. The Americans Criticize Themselves More Than Enough.

Everyone Can Recognize History When It Happens. Everyone Can Recognize History After Is Has Happened; But Only The Wise Man Knows At The Moment What Is Vital And Permanent, What Is Lasting And Memorable.

What Is A Fine Person Or A Beauteous Face, Unless Deportment Give Them Decent Grace; Blessed With All Other Requisites To Please, To Want The Striking Elegance Of Ease; Awkward, Embarrassed, Stiff, Without The Skill Of Moving Gracefully, Or Standing Still.

A Modest Little Person, With Much To Be Modest About.

If This Long Island Story Of Ours Is To End At Last, Let It End Only When Each One Of Us Lies, Choking In His Own Blood Upon The Ground.

However Beautiful The Strategy, You Should Occasionally Look At The Results.

From Now On We Shall Bomb Germany On An Ever-increasing Scale, Month By Month, Year By Year, Until The Nazi Regime Has Either Been Exterminated By Us Or - Better Still - Torn To Pieces By The German People Themselves.

There Are No People In The World Who Are So Slow To Develop Hostile Feelings Against A Foreign Country As The Americans, And No People Who, Once Estranged, Are More Difficult To Win Back.

You Were Given The Choice Between War And Dishonor. You Chose Dishonor And You Will Have War.

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

I Am Not Sure I Should Have Dared To Start; But I Am Sure That I Should Not Have Dared To Stop.

There Is No Doubt That It Is Around The Family And The Home That All The Greatest Virtues, The Most Dominating Virtues Of Human, Are Created, Strengthened And Maintained.

I'd Prefer To Be Right Than Consistent.

Science Has Given To This Generation The Means Of Unlimited Disaster Or Of Unlimited Progress. There Will Remain The Greater Task Of Directing Knowledge Lastingly Towards The Purpose Of Peace And Human Good.

This Generation

The Whole History Of The World Is Summed Up In The Fact That, When Nations Are Strong, They Are Not Always Just, And When They Wish To Be Just, They Are No Longer Strong.

I Know Of No Case Where A Man Added To His Dignity By Standing On It.

Watch Your Actions, They Become Your Habits.

For With Primacy In Power Is Also Joined An Awe Inspiring Accountability To The Future.

It Is No Use Dealing With Illusions And Make-believes. We Must Look At The Facts. The World ... Is Too Dangerous For Anyone To Be Able To Afford To Nurse Illusions. We Must Look At Realities.

The Difference Between Mere Management And Leadership Is Communication.

Success Consists Of Going From Failure To Failure Without Loss Of Enthusiasm.

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

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

Make Things Happen

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

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

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.

I Thought Of A Remark . . . That The United States Is Like A 'gigantic Boiler. Once The Fire Is Lighted Under It There Is No Limit To The Power It Can Generate.' Being Saturated And Satiated With Emotion And Sensation, I Went To Bed And Slept The Sleep Of The Saved And Thankful.

...every Offensive Lost Its Force As It Proceeded. It Was Like Throwing A Bucket Of Water Over The Floor. It First Rushed Forward, Then Soaked Forward, And Finally Stopped Altogether Until Another Bucket Could Be Brought.

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.

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

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.

Just As The Sentence Contains One Idea In All Its Fullness, So The Paragraph Should Embrace A Distinct Episode; And As Sentences Should Follow One Another In Harmonious Sequence, So Paragraphs Must Fit Into Another Like The Automatic Couplings Of Railway Carriages.

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

It Was Evident However That The Lawyers Would Have To Have Their Say....this Also Opened Up A Vista Both Lengthy And Obscure.

The Worst Mistake That A Statesman Can Make Is To Promise Victory And To See It Dashed, The Hopes Dashed.

I Hate Indians. They Are A Beastly People With A Beastly Religion.

Ethics Evolve Naturally, And We Trample Upon Them With Laws Created By Reason And Experience.

These Two Great Organisations Of The English-speaking Democracies, The British Empire And The United States, Will Have To Be Somewhat Mixed Up Together In Some Affairs For Mutual And General Advantage. I Do Not View The Process With Any Misgivings. I Could Not Stop It If I Wished. Let It Roll On Full Flood, Inexorable, Irresistible, Benignant, To Broader Lands, And Better Days.

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.

And A Pamphlet Called Pick Me Up There Is No Genuine Hatred Against Herr Hitler.

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.

This Wicked Man Hitler, The Repository And Embodiment Of Many Forms Of Soul-destroying Hatred. This Monstrous Product Of Former Wrongs And Shame.

If You Make 10,000 Regulations You Destroy All Respect For The Law.

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.

Let Us Set Up A Standard Around Which The Brave And The Loyal Can Rally.

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

Never, Ever Ever Ever Ever Give Up.

I Do Not Wonder That British Youth Is In Revolt Against The Morbid Doctrine That Nothing Matters But The Equal Sharing Of Miseries; That What Used To Be Called The Submerged Tenth Can Only Be Rescued By Bringing The Other Nine-tenths Down To Their Le.

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

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

He Has All Of The Virtues I Dislike And None Of The Vices I Admire.

There Are Plenty Of Good Ideas, If Only They Can Be Backed With The Power Of Action.

The World, Nature, Human Beings, Do Not Move Like Machines. The Edges Are Never Clear-cut, But Always Frayed. Nature Never Draws A Line Without Smudging It.

We Shall Draw From The Heart Of Suffering Itself The Means Of Inspiration And Survival.

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.

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

Kites Rise Highest Against The Wind - Not With It.

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

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

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

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