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The Dark Ages May Return-the Stone Age May Return On The Gleaming Wings Of Science; And What Might Now Shower Immeasureable Material Blessings Upon Mankind May Even Bring About Its Total Destruction. Beware! I Say. Time May Be Short. Referring To The Discovery Of Atomic Energy.

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Winston Churchill

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The Dark Ages May Return-the Stone Age May Return On The Gleaming Wings Of Science; And What Might Now Shower Immeasureable Material Blessings Upon Mankind May Even Bring About Its Total Destruction. Beware! I Say. Time May Be Short. Referring To The Discovery Of Atomic Energy.

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I Began My Education At A Very Early Age; In Fact, Right After I Left College.

[much] As War Attracts Me And Fascinates My Mind With Its Tremendous Situations, I Feel More Deeply Every Year . . . What Vile And Wicked Folly And Barbarism It All Is.

We Contend That For A Nation To Try To Tax Itself Into Prosperity Is Like A Man Standing In A Bucket And Trying To Lift Himself Up By The Handle.

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

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

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.

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

There's No Such Thing As A Good Tax.

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

The Only Thing That Ever Really Frightened Me During The War Was The U-boat Peril.

Solitary Trees, If They Grow At All, Grow Strong.

It May Be That ... When The Advance Of Destructive Weapons Enables Everyone To Kill Everybody Else Nobody Will Want To Kill Anyone At All. [referring To The Hydrogen Bomb.]

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

Certainly The Prolonged Education Indispensable To The Progress Of Society Is Not Natural To Mankind.

Progress Of Society

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

It's Never Over 'till It's Over! Never Give Up! Never.

Never Giving Up

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

And What A Plan! This Vast Operation Is Undoubtedly The Most Complicated And Difficult That Has Ever Occurred.

Art Is To Beauty What Honor Is To Honesty.

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

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.

We Have Not Journeyed All This Way Because We Are Made Of Sugar Candy.

All The Great Things Are Simple, And Many Can Be Expressed In A Single Word: Freedom, Justice, Honor, Duty, Mercy, Hope.

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

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.

One Ought To Be Just Before One Is Generous

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.

Victory Will Never Be Found By Taking The Path Of Least Resistance.

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

The Poodle [rufus] Ate In The Dining Room With The Rest Of The [churchill] Family. A Cloth Was Laid For Him On The Persian Carpet Beside The Head Of The Household, And No One Else Ate Until The Butler Had Served Rufus's Meal.

The Only Way A Man Can Remain Consistent Amid Changing Circumstances Is To Change With Them While Preserving The Same Dominating Purpose.

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.

Painting A Picture Is Like Trying To Fight A Battle.

I Never Worry About Action, But Only Inaction.

The Enemy Is Still Proud And Powerful. He Is Hard To Get At. He Still Possesses Enormous Armies, Vast Resources, And Invaluable Strategic Territories...no One Can Tell What New Complications And Perils Might Arise In Four Or Five More Years Of War. And It Is In The Dragging-out Of The War At Enormous Expense, Until The Democracies Are Tired Or Bored Or Split That The Main Hopes Of Germany And Japan Must Reside.

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.

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.

Unless Some Effective Supranational Government Can Be Set Up And Brought Quickly Into Action, The Prospects Of Peace And Human Progress Are Dark And Doubtful.

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

I Gather, Young Man, That You Wish To Be A Member Of Parliament. The First Lesson That You Must Learn Is, When I Call For Statistics About The Rate Of Infant Mortality, What I Want Is Proof That Fewer Babies Died When I Was Prime Minister Than When Anyone Else Was Prime Minister. That Is A Political Statistic.

No One Should Waste A Day.

If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

Criticism Is Easy; Achievement Is Difficult.

It Seems To Me That The Moment Has Come When The Question Of Bombing Of German Cities Simply For The Sake Of Increasing The Terror, Though Under Other Pretexts, Should Be Reviewed...i Feel The Need For More Precise Concentration Upon Military Objectives, Such As Oil And Communications Behind The Immediate Battle-zone, Rather Than On Mere Acts Of Terror And Wanton Destruction, However Impressive.

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

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

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

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

Thus I Got Into My Bones The Essential Structure Of The Ordinary British Sentence, Which Is A Noble Thing.

There Are Two Things That Are More Difficult Than Making An After-dinner Speech: Climbing A Wall Which Is Leaning Toward You And Kissing A Girl Who Is Leaning Away From You.

If We Could Get Out Of This Jam By Giving Up Malta And Gibraltar And Some African Colonies I Would Jump At It. But The Only Safe Way Is To Convince Hitler That He Cannot Beat Us.

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.

I Felt As If I Were Walking With Destiny, And That All My Past Life Had Been But A Preparation For This Hour And For This Trial... I Thought I Knew A Good Deal About It All, I Was Sure I Should Not Fail.

These Are Great Days.

He Who Fails To Plan Is Planning To Fail.

A Man Can Wear Out A Particular Part Of His Mind By Continually Using And Tiring It, Just In The Same Way He Can Wear Out The Elbows Of His Coat.

Life Is Fraught With Opportunities To Keep Your Mouth Shut.

Writing Is An Adventure.

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

Hess Or No Hess, I'm Going To Watch The Marx Brothers.

We Were Not Made By Nature To Work, Or Even To Play, From Eight O'clock In The Morning Till Midnight. We Ought To Break Our Days And Our Marches Into Two.

Which Brings Me To My Conclusion Upon Free Will And Predestination, Namely - Let The Reader Mark It - That They Are Identical.

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

I Am Always Ready To Learn Although I Do Not Always Like Being Taught.

It Is Impossible To Obtain A Conviction For Sodomy From An English Jury. Half Of Them Don't Believe That It Can Physically Be Done, And The Other Half Are Doing It.

Democracy Is A Very Bad Form Of Government ... But All The Others Are So Much Worse.

If We Are Together Nothing Is Impossible. If We Are Divided All Will Fail.

There Is No Better Exercise Than To Study And Devour A Picture, And Then, Without Looking At It Again, To Attempt The Next Day To Reproduce It.

It Is Alarming ... To See Mr Gandhi, A Seditious Middle Temple Lawyer, Now Posing As A Fakir Of A Type Well-known In The East, Striding Half-naked Up The Steps Of The Vice-regal Palace While He Is Still Organising And Conducting A Campaign Of Civil Disobedience.

Listing Your Personal Milestones Is Like Storing A Pocketful Of Sunshine For A Rainy Day. Sometimes Our Best Is Simply Not Enough.... We Have To Do What Is Required.

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.

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

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

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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 Power Of Man Has Grown In Every Sphere, Except Over Himself.

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

Renown Awaits The Commander Who First Restores Artillery To Its Prime Importance On The Battlefield.

You Know, In War, You Don't Have To Be Nice. You Only Have To Be Right.

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

If You Mean To Profit, Learn To Please.

What A Fool I Have Been!

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.

Politics Is Like Waking Up In The Morning. You Never Know Whose Head You'll Find On The Pillow.

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

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

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

What Kind Of People Do They [the Japanese] Think We Are?

I Have Never Developed Indigestion From Eating My Words.

When You Are Going Through Hell, Keep On Going. Never Never Never Give Up.

The Great War Differed From All Ancient Wars In The Immense Power Of The Combatants And Their Fearful Agencies Of Destruction, And From All Modern Wars In The Utter Ruthlessness With Which It Was Fought.

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

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

Kites Rise Highest Against The Wind - Not With It.

The Old Wars Were Decided By Their Episodes Rather Than By Their Tendencies. In This War, The Tendencies Are Far More Important Than The Episodes.

Fear Is A Reaction. Courage Is A Decision.

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

The British Nation Is Unique In This Respect. They Are The Only People Who Like To Be Told How Bad Things Are, Who Like To Be Told The Worst.

A Man Is About As Big As The Things That Make Him Angry.

All The Great Things Are Simple.

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

To Build May Have To Be The Slow And Laborious Task Of Years. To Destroy Can Be The Thoughtless Act Of A Single Day.

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.

And Wherever Men Are Fighting Against Barbarism, Tyranny, And Massacre, For Freedom, Law, And Honour, Let Them Remember That The Fame Of Their Deeds, Even Though They Themselves Be Exterminated, May Perhaps Be Celebrated As Long As The World Rolls Round.

Be A Peg, Hammered Into The Frozen Ground, Immovable.

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

In All The Twelve Years I Was At School No One Ever Succeeded In Making Me Write A Latin Verse Or Learn Any Greek Except The Alphabet.

Your Day Will Go The Way The Corners Of Your Mouth Turn.

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

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

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

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.

If Tonight Our People Were Asked To Cast Their Vote Whether A Convention Should Be Entered Into To Stop The Bombing Of Cities, The Overwhelming Majority Would Cry, "we Will Mete Out To Them [the Germans] The Measure, And More Than The Measure, That They Have Meted Out To Us... We Will Have No Truce Or Parley With You, Or The Grisly Gang Who Work Your Wicked Will. You Do Your Worst - And We Will Do Our Best."

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

The United States Is Like A Gigantic Boiler. Once The Fire Is Lit Under It, There's No Limit To The Power It Can Generate.

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

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

Being Responsible

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

Before America Entered The War [ww2] I Knew We Could Not Win It, But After She Entered I Knew We Could Not Lose

These Cruel, Wanton, Indiscriminate Bombings Of London Are, Of Course, A Part Of Hitler's Invasion Plans. He Hopes, By Killing Large Numbers Of Civilians, And Women And Children, That He Will Terrorise And Cow The People Of This Mighty Imperial City ... Little Does He Know The Spirit Of The British Nation, Or The Tough Fibre Of The Londoners.

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 Cannot Pretend To Be Impartial About The Colours. I Rejoice With The Brilliant Ones, And Am Genuinely Sorry For The Poor Browns.

I Now Began For The First Time To Envy Those Young Cubs At The University Who Had Fine Scholars To Tell Them What Was What; Professors Who Had Devoted Their Lives To Mastering And Focusing Ideas In Every Branch Of Learning; Who Were Eager To Distribute The Treasures They Had Gathered Before They Were Overtaken By The Night. But Now I Pity Undergraduates, When I See What Frivolous Lives Many Of Them Lead In The Midst Of Precious Fleeting Opportunity. After All, A Man's Life Must Be Nailed To A Cross Either Of Thought Or Action. Without Work There Is No Play.

Censure Is Often Useful, Praise Is Often Deceitful.

Watch Your Habits, They Determine Your Character.

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.

Victory Was To Be Bought So Dear As To Be Almost Indistinguishable From Defeat.

Here Is A Law Which Is Above The King And Which Even He Must Not Break. This Reaffirmation Of A Supreme Law And Its Expression In A General Charter Is The Great Work Of Magna Carta; And This Alone Justifies The Respect In Which Men Have Held It

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

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.

If You Don't Take Change By The Hand, It Will Take You By The Throat.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

Victory And Defeat

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

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

To Each There Comes In Their Lifetime A Special Moment When They Are Figuratively Tapped On The Shoulder And Offered The Chance To Do A Very Special Thing, Unique To Them And Fitted To Their Talents. What A Tragedy If That Moment Finds Them Unprepared Or Unqualified For That Which Could Have Been Their Finest Hour.

If You Wanted Nothing Done At All, Balfour Was The Man For The Job.

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

Men Often Stumble Onto The Truth But Then Quickly Dust Themselves Off And Hurry Away.

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!

When Iraq Becomes Strong Enough In Our Opinion To Stand Alone, We Shall Be In A Position To State That Our Task Has Been Fulfilled, And That Iraq Is An Independent Sovereign State. But This Cannot Be Said While We Are Forced Year After Year To Spend Very Large Sums Of Money On Helping The Iraqi Government To Defend Itself And Maintain Order.

There Are Few Virtues That The Poles Do Not Possess And There Are Few Errors They Have Ever Avoided.

There Never Will Be Enough For Everything While The World Goes On. The More That Is Given The More There Will Be Needed.

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

I'm So Bored With It All.

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.

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.

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

One May Imagine That A Man Who Blew The Trumpet For His Living Would Be Glad To Play The Violin For His Amusement.

Danger Gathers Upon Our Path. We Cannot Afford - We Have No Right - To Look Back. We Must Look Forward... The Stronger The Advocate Of Monarchical Principle A Man May Be, The More Zealously He Must Now Endeavor To Fortify The Throne And To Give To His Majesty's Successor That Strength Which Can Only Come From The Love Of A United Nation And Empire.

We Shape Our Buildings; Thereafter They Shape Us.

The Influence Exercised Over The Human Mind By Apt Analogies Is And Has Always Been Immense. Whether They Translate An Established Truth Into Simple Language Or Whether They Adventurously Aspire To Reveal The Unknown, They Are Among The Most Formidable Weapons Of The Rhetorician.

Mr. Gladstone Read Homer For Fun, Which I Thought Served Him Right.

We Are All Worms. But I Believe That I Am A Glow-worm.

I'd Prefer To Be Right Than Consistent.

Make For The Children An Evening Of Happiness In A World Of Storm. Let The Children Have Their Night Of Fun And Laughter... Resolved That By Our Daring, These Same Children Shall Not Be Denied Their Right To Live In A Free And Decent World.

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

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.

I No Longer Listen To What People Say, I Just Watch What They Do. Behavior Never Lies.

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.

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.

Americans Always Do The Right Thing, Once They Have Exhausted All Other Possibilities.

Danger, If Met Head On, Can Be Nearly Halved

The Late M. Venizelos Observed That In All Her Wars Englandhe Should Have Said Britain, Of Coursealways Wins One Battlethe Last.

We Shall Show Mercy, But We Shall Not Ask For It.

We Must Not Lose Our Faculty To Dare, Particularly In Dark Days.

All Wisdom Is Not New Wisdom.

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

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.

Personally I Think That Private Property Has A Right To Be Defended. Our Civilisation Is Built Up On Property, And Can Only Be Defended By Private Property.

The Substitution Of The Internal Combustion Engine For The Horse Marked A Very Gloomy Milestone In The Progress Of Mankind.

Success Is The Ability To Continue To Move Through Total Disaster.

If I Was Your Wife Sir, I'd Poison You! Madam, If You Were My Wife, I'd Let You!

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

Churchill Says The Government Had To Choose Between War And Shame. They Chose Shame. They Will Get War, Too.

It Seems To Me That The Moment Has Come When The Question Of Bombing Of German Cities Simply For The Sake Of Increasing The Terror, Though Under Other Pretexts, Should Be Reviewed.

Give Me The Facts, And I Will Twist Them The Way I Want, To Suit My Argument.

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

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

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.

Some People Like The Jews, And Some Do Not. But No Thoughtful Man Can Deny The Fact That They Are, Beyond Any Question, The Most Formidable And The Most Remarkable Race Which Has Appeared In The World.

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

All Was There-the Programme Of German Resurrection, The Technique Of Party Propaganda; The Plan For Combating Marxism; The Concept Of A National-socialist State; The Rightful Position Of Germany At The Summit Ofthe World. Here Was The New Koran Of Faith And War: Turgid, Verbose, Shapeless, But Pregnant With Its Message.

Un Pesimista Ve La Dificultad En Cada Oportunidad; Un Optimista Ve Una Oportunidad En Cada Dificultad

If Hitler Invaded Hell I Would Make At Least A Favourable Reference To The Devil In The House Of Commons.

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