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

-Winston Churchill

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

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Sure I Am Of This, That You Have Only To Endure To Conquer.

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

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Everybody Stumbles Across A Golden Opportunity At Least Once In A Lifetime. Unfortunately Most People Just Pick Themselves Up, Dust Themselves Down, And Walk Away From It.

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And You, Madam, Are Ugly. But I Shall Be Sober In The Morning.

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

Logic Is A Poor Guide Compared With Custom.

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The Belief That Security Can Be Obtained By Throwing A Small State To The Wolves Is A Fatal Delusion.

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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.

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Success Always Demands A Greater Effort.

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If You Mean To Profit, Learn To Please.

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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.

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

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

We Proceeded Systematically, Village By Village And We Destroyed The Houses, Filled Up The Wells, Blew Down The Towers, Cut Down The Shady Trees, Burned The Crops And Broke The Reservoirs In Punitive Devastation.

Life Is A Test And This World A Place Of Trial.

A Nation That Fails To Honor Its Heroes, Soon Will Have No Heroes To Honor.

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We Build Dwellings And Thereafter They Build Us.

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Guarantees That

The Great Defence Against Aerial Menace Is To Attack The Enemy's Aircraft As Near As Possible To Their Point Of Departure.

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

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Already By 1900 I Could Boast I Had Written As Many Books As Moses.

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.

Want Of Foresight, Unwillingness To Act When Action Would Be Simple And Effective, Lack Of Clear Thinking, Confusion Of Counsel Until The Emergency Comes, Until Self-preservation Strikes Its Jarring Gong - These Are The Features Which Constitute The Endless Repetition Of History.

You Will Never Reach Your Destination If You Stop And Throw Stones At Every Dog That Barks.

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.

Never Give In Except To Convictions Of Honor And Good Sense.

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Funny Inspirational

One Must Regard The Hyphen As A Blemish To Be Avoided Wherever Possible.

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I Pass With Relief From The Tossing Sea Of Cause And Theory To The Firm Ground Of Result And Fact.

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Just To Paint Is Great Fun ... Try It If You Have Not Done So - Before You Die.

He Who Fails To Plan Is Planning To Fail.

God Alone Knows How Great It Is. All I Hope Is That It Is Not Too Late. I Am Very Much Afraid That It Is. We Can Only Do Our Best.

We Shall Go Forward Together. The Road Upwards Is Stony. There Are Upon Our Journey Dark And Dangerous Valleys Through Which We Have To Make And Fight Our Way. But It Is Sure And Certain That If We Persevere - And We Shall Persevere - We Shall Come Through These Dark And Dangerous Valleys Into A Sunlight Broader And More Genial And More Lasting Than Mankind Has Ever Known.

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.

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

This Is No Time For Ease And Comfort. It Is Time To Dare And Endure.

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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 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.

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.

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We Must Build A Kind Of United States Of Europe.

A Heightened Sense Of The Observation Of Nature Is One Of The Chief Delights That Have Come To Me Through Trying To Paint.

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

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

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Little Did We Guess That What Has Been Called The Century Of The Common Man Would Witness As Its Outstanding Feature More Common Men Killing Each Other With Greater Facilities Than Any Other Five Centuries Together In The History Of The World.

The Maxim Of The British People Is 'business As Usual.'

Old Men Make War, Young Men Fight And Die

I Am A Man Of Simple Tastes-i Am Quite Easily Satisfied With The Best Of Everything.

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

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

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

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

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

There But For The Grace Of God, Goes God.

Do Not Let Us Speak Of Darker Days, Let Us Speak Rather Of Sterner Days. These Are Not Dark Days: These Are Great Days-the Greatest Days Our Country Has Ever Lived; And We Must All Thank God That We Have Been Allowed, Each Of Us According To Our Stations, To Play A Part In Making These Days Memorable In The History Of Our Race.

It Is A Fine Game To Play - The Game Of Politics - And It Is Well Worth Waiting For A Good Hand Before Really Plunging.

Let Our Advance Worrying Become Advance Thinking And Planning.

There Is Only One Duty, Only One Safe Course, And That Is To Try To Be Right.

I Have Never Promised Anything But Blood, Tears, Toil And Sweat. Now, However We Have A New Experience. We Have A Victory - A Remarkable And Definite Victory. The Bright Gleam Has Caught The Helmets Of Our Soldiers And Warmed And Cheered All Our Hearts.

New Experiences

The United Nations Was Set Up Not To Get Us To Heaven, But Only To Save Us From Hell.

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

If You Simply Take Up The Attitude Of Defending A Mistake, There Will No Hope Of Improvement.

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

The Story Of The Human Race Is War. Except For Brief And Precarious Interludes There Has Never Been Peace In The World; And Long Before History Began Murderous Strife Was Universal And Unending.

In Great Britain, Governments Often Change Their Policies Without Changing Their Men. In France, They Usually Change Their Men Without Changing Their Policy.

I Am Quite Sure, That If We Open A Quarrel Between The Past And The Present, We Shall Find That We Have Lost The Future.

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

It Is Remarkable That Lord Esher Should Be So Much Astray...we Must Conclude That An Uncontrollable Fondness For Fiction Forbade Him To Forsake It For Fact. Such Constancy Is A Defect In An Historian.

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

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

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