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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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We Must Recognise That We Have A Great Inheritance In Our Possession, Which Represents The Prolonged Achievement Of The Centuries; That There Is Not One Of Our Simple Uncounted Rights Today For Which Better Men Than We Are Have Not Died On The Scaffold Or The Battlefield. We Have Not Only A Great Treasure; We Have A Great Cause. Are We Taking Every Measure Within Our Power To Defend That Cause?

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

Working Hours Are Never Long Enough. Each Day Is A Holiday, And Ordinary Holidays Are Grudged As Enforced Interruptions In An Absorbing Vocation.

It Is With Deep Grief I Watch The Clattering Down Of The British Empire With All Its Glories And All The Services It Has Rendered To Mankind.

A Man Who Gets The Reputation Of Rising At Dawn Can Sleep To Noon.

It Is A Good Thing To Stand Away From The Canvas From Time To Time And Take A Full View Of The Picture.

It Was My Ambition All Of My Life To Be Master Of The Spoken Word.

Difficulties Mastered Are Opportunities Won.

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

A Hopeful Disposition Is Not The Sole Qualification To Be A Prophet.

The Essence And Foundation Of House Of Commons Debating Is Formal Conversation. The Set Speech, The Harangue Addressed To Constituents, Or To The Wider Public Out Of Doors, Has Never Succeeded Much In Our Small Wisely-built Chamber. To Do Any Good You Have Got To Get Down To Grips With The Subject And In Human Touch With The Audience.

The Reservist Is Twice The Citizen.

It Was The Nation And The Race Dwelling All Round The Globe That Had The Lion's Heart. I Had The Luck To Be Called Upon To Give The Roar.

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.

Time Passes Swiftly, But Is It Not Joyous To See How Great And Growing Is The Treasure We Have Gathered Together, Amid The Storms And Stresses Of So Many Eventful And To Millions Tragic And Terrible Years?

It Is No Use Saying, 'we Are Doing Our Best.' You Have Got To Succeed In Doing What Is Necessary.

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

We Shall Defend Our Island, Whatever The Cost May Be, We Shall Fight On The Beaches, We Shall Fight On The Landing Grounds, We Shall Fight In The Fields And In The Streets, We Shall Fight In The Hills; We Shall Never Surrender.

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

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

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I Have Had To Eat My Own Words Many Times, And I Have Found It A Very Nourishing Diet.

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

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We Used To Be A Source Of Fuel; We Are Increasingly Becoming A Sink. These Supplies Of Foreign Liquid Fuel Are No Doubt Vital To Our Industry, But Our Ever-increasing Dependence Upon Them Ought To Arouse Serious And Timely Reflection. The Scientific Utilisation, By Liquefaction, Pulverisation And Other Processes, Or Our Vast And Magnificent Deposits Of Coal, Constitutes A National Object Of Prime Importance.

There Is No Doubt That It Is Around The Family And The Home That All The Greatest Virtues, The Most Dominating Virtues Of Human Society, Are Created, Strengthened And Maintained. Having A Family Guarantees That You Have A Built In Support System, And Although That Support System May Not Always Be What You Want It To Be, When It Comes Down To The Wire, Your Family Will Love You And Stand Behind You, No Matter What.

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This Movement Among The Jews Is Not New... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilisation And For The Reconstitution Of Society On The Basis Of Arrested Development, Of Envious Malevolence, And Impossible Equality, Has Been Steadily Growing... It Has Been The Mainspring Of Every Subversive Movement During The Nineteenth Century.

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

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

No More Let Us Alter Or Falter Or Palter. From Malta To Yalta, And Yalta To Malta.

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.

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

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In The Course Of My Life, I Have Often Had To Eat My Words, And I Must Confess That I Have Always Found It A Wholesome Diet.

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.

'no Comment' Is A Splendid Expression. I Am Using It Again And Again.

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

The Person Of Truth Must Be Covered With Bodyguards Of Lies.

Success Is Not Final, Failure Is Not Fatal: It Is The Courage To Continue That Counts.

Let The Children Have Their Night Of Fun And Laughter, Let The Gifts Of Father Christmas Delight Their Play. Let Us Grown-ups Share To The Full In Their Unstinted Pleasures.

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

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

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

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

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Mr Churchill, To What Do You Attribute Your Success In Life? Conservation Of Energy. Never Stand Up When You Can Sit Down. And Never Sit Down When You Can Lie Down.

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I Propose That 100,000 Degenerate Britons Should Be Forcibly Sterilized And Others Put In Labour Camps To Halt The Decline Of The British Race.

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

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

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.

The Arts Are Essential To Any Complete National Life. The State Owes It To Itself To Sustain And Encourage Them. [...] Ill Fares The Race Which Fails To Salute The Arts With The Reverence And Delight Which Are Their Due.

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Do What You Like, But Like What You Do.

Individual Moslems May Show Splendid Qualities. Thousands Become The Brave And Loyal Soldiers Of The Queen: All Know How To Die: But The Influence Of The Religion Paralyses The Social Development Of Those Who Follow It. No Stronger Retrograde Force Exists In The World. Far From Being Moribund, Mohammedanism Is A Militant And Proselytizing Faith. It Has Already Spread Throughout Central Africa, Raising Fearless Warriors At Every Step; And Were It Not That Christianity Is Sheltered In The Strong Arms Of Science, The Science Against Which It Had Vainly Struggled, The Civilisation Of Modern Europe Might Fall, As Fell The Civilisation Of Ancient Rome.

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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

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Danger Gathers Upon Our Path. We Cannot Afford - We Have No Right - To Look Back. We Must Look Forward

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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.

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

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History Unfolds Itself By Strange And Unpredictable Paths. We Have Little Control Over The Future; And None At All Over The Past.

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We Are Stripped Bare By The Curse Of Plenty.

You Must Look At Facts, Because They Look At You.

We Are Waiting For The Long-promised Invasion. So Are The Fishes.

We Have Always Found The Irish A Bit Odd. They Refuse To Be English.

I Always Avoid Prophesying Beforehand, Because It Is A Much Better Policy To Prophesy After The Event Has Already Taken Place.

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.

You Don't Make The Poor Richer By Making The Rich Poorer.

It Is Better To Do Something Than To Do Nothing While Waiting To Do Everything.

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.

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.

My Education Was Interrupted Only By My Schooling.

A Study Of Disease-of Pestilences Methodically Prepared And Deliberately Launched Upon Man And Beast-is Certainly Being Pursue In The Laboratories Of More Than One Great Country. Blight To Destroy Crops, Anthrax To Slay Horses And Cattle, Plague To Poison Not Armies But Whole Districts - Such Are The Lines Along Which Military Science Is Remorselessly Advancing.

Perfect Solutions Of Our Difficulties Are Not To Be Looked For In An Imperfect World.

Imperfect World

No One Ever Came To Grief-except Honorable Grief-through Riding Horses. No Hour Of Life Is Lost That Is Spent In The Saddle. Young Men Have Often Been Ruined Through Owning Horses, Or Through Backing Horses, But Never Through Riding Them; Unless Of Course They Break Their Necks, Which, Taken At A Gallop, Is A Very Good Death To Die.

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

There Are A Terrible Lot Of Lies Going About The World, And The Worst Of It Is That Half Of Them Are True.

We Get To Make A Living; We Give To Make A Life.

"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.

So Long As I Am Acting From Duty And Conviction, I Am Indifferent To Taunts And Jeers. I Think They Will Probably Do Me More Good Than Harm.

We Must Be United, We Must Be Undaunted, We Must Be Inflexible. Our Qualities And Deeds Must Burn And Glow Through The Gloom Oeurope Until They Become The Veritable Beacon Oits Salvation.

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

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

Do Not Trust Any Statistics You Did Not Fake Yourself.

A Love For Tradition Has Never Weakened A Nation, Indeed It Has Strengthened Nations In Their Hour Of Peril.

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

When I Find A Ladybug I Ask The Butler To Take It Outside Instead Of Killing It.

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.

May There Not Be Methods Of Using Explosive Energy Incomparably More Intense Than Anything Heretofore Discovered? Might Not A Bomb No Bigger Than An Orange Be Found To Possess A Secret Power To Destroy A Whole Block Of Buildings-nay, To Concentrate The Force Of A Thousand Tons Of Cordite And Blast A Township At A Stroke? Could Not Explosives Even Of The Existing Type Be Guided Automatically In Flying Machines By Wireless Or Other Rays, Without A Human Pilot, In Ceaseless Procession Upon A Hostile City, Arsenal, Camp Or Dockyard?

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

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

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

That Long (canadian) Frontier From The Atlantic To The Pacific Ocean, Guarded Only By Neighbourly Respect And Honourable Obligations, As An Example To Every Country And A Pattern For The Future Of The World.

The American Constitution Declares 'all Men Are Born Equal.' The British Socialist Party Add: 'all Men Must Be Kept Equal'.

Elections Exist For The Sake Of The House Of Commons And Not The House Of Commons For The Sake Of Elections.

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.

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

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How I Hated This School, And What A Life Of Anxiety I Lived There For More Than Two Years.

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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.

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