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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.

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Winston Churchill

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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.

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Baldwin Thought Europe Was A Bore, And Chamberlain Thought It Was Only A Greater Birmingham.

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!

We Have Taken A Grave And Hazardous Decision To Sustain The Greeks And Try To Make A Balkan Front.

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

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

Never In The Field Of Human Conflict Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few.

When I Was Younger I Made It A Rule Never To Take Strong Drink Before Lunch. It Is Now My Rule Never To Do So Before Breakfast.

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.

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

I Do Not Admit... That A Great Wrong Has Been Done To The Red Indians Of America, Or The Black People Of Australia... By The Fact That A Stronger Race, A Higher Grade Race... Has Come In And Taken Its Place.

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.

Our Inheritance Of Well-founded, Slowly Conceived Codes Of Honor, Morals And Manners, The Passionate Convictions Which So Many Hundreds Of Millions Share Together Of The Principles Of Freedom And Justice, Are Far More Precious To Us Than Anything Which Scientific Discoveries Could Bestow.

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

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

Battles Are Won By Slaughter And Maneuver. The Greater The General, The More He Contributes In Maneuver, The Less He Demands In Slaughter.

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

I Wanted Us To Go To The Tories When We Were Strong...not In Misfortune To Be Made An Honest Woman Of.

There Is Nothing Like Oratory, It Is A Skill That Can Turn A Commoner Into A King.

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

The Object Of Parliament Is To Substitute Argument For Fisticuffs.

If You Cannot Read All Your Books...fondle Them---peer Into Them, Let Them Fall Open Where They Will, Read From The First Sentence That Arrests The Eye, Set Them Back On The Shelves With Your Own Hands, Arrange Them On Your Own Plan So That You At Least Know Where They Are. Let Them Be Your Friends; Let Them, At Any Rate, Be Your Acquaintances.

Nothing Is Perfect On The Human Stage.

No One Should Waste A Day.

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.'

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

Your Greatest Fears Are Created By Your Imagination. Don't Give In To Them.

Everyone Has A Right To Pronounce Foreign Names As He Chooses.

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

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.

Churchill: "madam, Would You Sleep With Me For Five Million Pounds?" Socialite: "my Goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I Suppose... We Would Have To Discuss Terms, Of Course... " Churchill: "would You Sleep With Me For Five Pounds?" Socialite: "mr. Churchill, What Kind Of Woman Do You Think I Am?!" Churchill: "madam, We've Already Established That. Now We Are Haggling About The Price

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

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

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

No Hour Of Life Is Wasted That Is Spent In The Saddle.

The United States Is A Land Of Free Speech. Nowhere Is Speech Freer - Not Even Here Where We Sedulously Cultivate It Even In Its Most Repulsive Form.

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

Preparation Is - If Not The Key To Genius - Then At Least The Key To Sounding Like A Genius.

...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.

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We Must Build A Kind Of United States Of Europe.

At The Depths Of That Dusty Soul There Is Nothing But Abject Surrender.

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.

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

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.

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!

Don't Talk To Me About Naval Tradition. It's Nothing But Rum, Sodomy, And The Lash.

Sure I Am Of This, That You Have Only To Endure To Conquer. You Have Only To Persevere To Save Yourselves, And To Save All Those Who Rely Upon You. You Have Only To Go Right On, And At The End Of The Road, Be It Short Or Long, Victory And Honor Will Be Found.

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'keep England White' Is A Good Slogan.

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

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.

To Sit At One's Table On A Sunny Morning, With Four Clear Hours Of Uninterruptible Security, Plenty Of Nice White Paper, And A Squeezer Pen - That Is True Happiness.

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.

A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing.

The Whole Of Northern Norway Was Covered With Snow To Depths Which None Of Our Soldiers Had Ever Seen, Felt, Or Imagined. There Were Neither Snow-shoes Nor Skis - Still Less Skiers. We Must Do Our Best. Thus Began This Ramshackle Campaign.

You Have Enemies? Good. That Means You've Stood Up For Something, Sometime In Your Life.

There Is Nothing Government Can Give You That It Hasn't Taken From You In The First Place.

Please Put The Ladybug Outside Without Harming Her. (to His Butler)

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Men Will Forgive A Man Anything Except Bad Prose.

Lobbyists Are The Touts Of Protected Industries.

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I'm So Bored With It All.

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Plans Are Of Little Importance, But Planning Is Essential.

The Era Of Procrastination, Of Half-measures, Of Soothing And Baffling Expedients, Of Delays Is Coming To Its Close. In Its Place We Are Entering A Period Of Consequences.

Procrastination

I Never Worry About Action, But Only Inaction.

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

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

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.

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

I Accumulated In Those Years So Fine A Surplus In The Book Of Observance That I Have Been Drawing Confidently Upon It Ever Since.

Happy Are The Painters, For They Shall Not Be Lonely. Light And Colour, Peace And Hope, Will Keep Them Company To The End Of The Day.

The End Of The Day

By Swallowing Evil Words Unsaid, No One Has Ever Harmed His Stomach.

Don't Take 'no' For An Answer, Never Submit To Failure. Do Not Be Fobbed Off With Mere Personal Success Or Acceptance. You Will Make All Kinds Of Mistakes, But As Long As You Are Generous And True, And Also Fierce, You Cannot Hurt The World Or Events.

You Must Understand That This War Is Not Against Hitler Or National Socialism, But Against The Strength Of The German People, Which Is To Be Smashed Once And For All, Regardless Of Whether It Is In The Hands Of Hitler Or A Jesuit Priest.

The Latest Refinements Of Science Are Linked With The Cruelties Of The Stone Age.

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

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.

Things Do Not Get Better By Being Left Alone.

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.

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

The Oldest Habit In The World For Resisting Change Is To Complain That Unless The Remedy To The Disease Should Be Universally Applied It Should Not Be Applied At All. But You Must Start Somewhere.

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.

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.

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.

The Is Always Much To Be Said For Not Attempting More Than You Can Do And For Making A Certainty Of What You Try. But This Principle, Like Others In Life And War, Has It Exceptions.

Democracy Means That If The Doorbell Rings In The Early Hours, It Is Likely To Be The Milkman.

My Conclusion On Freewill And Predestination- They Are Identical.

Now At This Very Moment I Knew That The United States Was In The War, Up To The Neck And In To The Death. So We Had Won After All! ... How Long The War Would Last Or In What Fashion It Would End No Man Could Tell, Nor Did I At This Moment Care ... We Should Not Be Wiped Out. Our History Would Not Come To An End ... Hitler's Fate Was Sealed. Mussolini's Fate Was Sealed. As For The Japanese, They Would Be Ground To A Powder. All The Rest Was Merely The Proper Application Of Overwhelming Force.

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

It Is Not Enough That We Do Our Best; Sometimes We Must Do What Is Required.

Perhaps It Is Better To Be Irresponsible And Right, Than To Be Responsible And Wrong.

Being Responsible

I Have Never Developed Indigestion From Eating My Words.

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

If You Find A Job You Love, You'll Never Work Again.

I'd Rather Argue Against A Hundred Idiots, Than Have One Agree With Me.

Don't Be Careless About Yourselves--on The Other Hand Not Too Careful. Live Well But Do Not Flaunt It. Laugh A Little And Teach Your Men To Laugh--get Good Humor Under Fire--war Is A Game That's Played With A Smile. If You Can't Smile, Grin. If You Can't Grin, Keep Out Of The Way Till You Can.

The Only Statistics You Can Trust Are Those You Falsified Yourself.

I Do Not Apologize For The Takeover Of The Region By The Jews From The Palestinians In The Same Way I Don't Apologize For The Takeover Of America By The Whites From The Red Indians Or The Takeover Of Australia From The Blacks. It Is Natural For A Superior Race To Dominate An Inferior One.

[the Balkans] Produce More History Than They Can Consume.

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 Have Not Made Any Arrogant, Confident, Boasting Predictions At All. On The Contrary, I Have Stuck Hard To My "blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat," To Which I Have Added Muddle And Mismanagement, And That, To Some Extend I Must Admit, Is What You Have Got Out Of It."

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

When Told By A Helpful Aide That His Flies Were Undone He Replied 'young Man, There Is No Harm In Leaving The Cage Door Open If The Bird Is Dead!

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.

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

They [the Labour Party] Are Not Fit To Manage A Whelk Stall.

[the Politician] Is Asked To Stand, He Wants To Sit, And He Is Expected To Lie.

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

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.

We Have No Lasting Friends, No Lasting Enemies, Only Lasting Interests.

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

I Get My Exercise Being A Pallbearer For Those Of My Friends Who Believed In Regular Running And Calisthenics.

Politics Is More Dangerous Than War, For In War You Are Only Killed Once.

It Is A Curious Fact About British Islanders, Who Hate Drill And Have Not Been Invaded For Nearly A Thousand Years, That As Danger Comes Nearer And Grows They Become Progressively Less Nervous; When It Is Imminent The Are Fierce, When It Is Mortal They Are Fearless.

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

Make Things Happen

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

I Have Benefited Greatly From Criticism, And At No Time Have I Suffered A Lack Thereof.

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.

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.

There's No Such Thing As A Good Tax.

With The End Of The Victorian Era, We Passed Into What I Feel I Must Call The Terrible 20th Century

I Have Always Felt That A Politician Is To Be Judged By The Animosities He Excites Among His Opponents.

The Aryan Stock Is Bound To Triumph.

Thus, Then, On The Night Of The Tenth Of May, At The Outset Of This Mighty Battle, I Acquired The Chief Power In The State, Which Henceforth I Wielded In Ever-growing Measure For Five Years And Three Months Of World War, At The End Of Which Time, All Our Enemies Having Surrendered Unconditionally Or Being About To Do So, I Was Immediately Dismissed By The British Electorate From All Further Conduct Of Their Affairs.

We Are Stripped Bare By The Curse Of Plenty. [referring To The Theory That Over-production Caused The Depression]

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

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

Democracy Is The Best Form Of The Worst Type Of Government

The Flags Of The Confederate States Of America Were Very Important And A Matter Of Great Pride To Those Citizens Living In The Confederacy. They Are Also A Matter Of Great Pride For Their Descendants As Part Of Their Heritage And History.

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.

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

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.

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

My Only Consolation For The Failure Of The Dardanelles Was That God Wished Things To Be Prolonged In Order To Sicken Mankind Of War, And That Therefore He Had Interfered With A Project That Would Have Brought The War To A Speedier Conclusion.

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.

When You Leave Off Dreaming, The Universe Ceases To Exist.

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 This Fearful Fatalistic Apathy. Improvident Habits, Slovenly Systems Of Agriculture, Sluggish Methods Of Commerce, And Insecurity Of Property Exist Wherever The Followers Of The Prophet Rule Or Live. A Degraded Sensualism Deprives This Life Of Its Grace And Refinement; The Next Of Its Dignity And Sanctity.

When You Are Going Through Hell, Don't Stop.

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

There Are Two Processes Which We Adopt Consciously Or Unconsciously When We Try To Prophesy. We Can Seek A Period In The Past Whose Conditions Resemble As Closely As Possible Those Of Our Day, And Presume That The Sequel To That Period Will, Save For Some Minor Alterations, Be Similar. Secondly, We Can Survey The General Course Of Development In Our Immediate Past, And Endeavor To Prolong It Into The Near Future. The First Is The Method The Historian; The Second That Of The Scientist. Only The Second Is Open To Us Now, And This Only In A Partial Sphere.

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.

I Am Your Servant. You Have The Right To Dismiss Me When You Please. What You Have No Right To Do Is Ask Me To Bear Responsibility Without The Power Of Action.

No Compromise With The Main Purpose; No Peace Till Victory; No Pact With Unrepentant Wrong.

If You Want Me To Speak For Two Minutes, It Will Take Me Three Weeks Of Preparation. If You Want Me To Speak For Thirty Minutes, It Will Take Me A Week To Prepare. If You Want Me To Speak For An Hour, I Am Ready Now.

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

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 Hoped To Land A Wild Cat That Would Tear Out The Bowels Of The Boche. Instead We Have Stranded A Vast Whale With Its Tail Flopping About In The Water.

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 Is Better To Do The Wrong Thing That To Do Nothing.

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

Without Courage All Other Virtues Lose Their Meaning.

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.

You May Take The Most Gallant Sailor, The Most Intrepid Airman, Or The Most Audacious Soldier, Put Them At A Table Together- What Do You Get? The Sum Of Their Fears.

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.

Now At Last The Slowly Gathered, Long-pent-up Fury Of The Storm Broke Upon Us. Four Or Five Millions Of Men Met Each Other In The First Shock Of The Most Merciless Of All The Wars Of Which Record Has Been Kept.

No Stronger Retrograde Force Exists In The World. Far From Being Moribund, Mohammedanism Is A Militant And Proselytizing Faith.

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.

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

Logic Is A Poor Guide Compared With Custom.

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

The Flame Of Christian Ethics Is Still Our Highest Guide.

A Sheep In Sheep's Clothing.

May The Pain You Have Known And The Conflict You Have Experienced Give You The Strength To Walk Through Life Facing Each New Situation With Courage And Optimism.

Canada Is The Linchpin Of The English-speakin G World

I Have Lived Seventy-eight Years Without Hearing Of Bloody Places Like Cambodia.

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

Haven't You Learned Yet That I Put Something More Than Whisky Into My Speeches.

Nourish Your Hopes, But Do Not Overlook Realities.

...the Schemes Of The International Jews. The Adherents Of This Sinister Confederacy Are Mostly Men Reared Up Among The Unhappy Populations Of Countries Where Jews Are Persecuted On Account Of Their Race... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilisation... 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 Heads And Have Become Practically The Undisputed Masters Of That Enormous Empire.

Censure Is Often Useful, Praise Is Often Deceitful.

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

The Battle Of France Is Over. The Battle Of Britain Is About To Begin. Upon This Battle Depends The Future Of Christian Civilisation.

My Mother Made A Brilliant Impression Upon My Childhood Life. She Shone For Me Like The Evening Star.

The English Never Draw A Line Without Blurring It.

Without Execution, Thinking Is Mere Idleness.

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.

The Power Of The Executive To Cast A Man Into Prison Without Formulating Any Charge Known To The Law And Particularly To Deny Him The Judgement Of His Peers Is In The Highest Degree Odious And Is The Foundation Of All Totalitarian Government Whether Nazi Or Communist.

If You Don't Have Any Enemies In Life You Have Never Stood Up For Anything.

Fear Is A Reaction. Courage Is A Decision.

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

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

A Prisoner Of War Is A Man Who Tries To Kill You And Fails, And Then Asks You Not To Kill Him.

Saving Is A Fine Thing. Especially When Your Parents Have Done It For You.

The Price Of Greatness Is Responsibility.

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.

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

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

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