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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.

-Winston Churchill

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The Era Of Procrastination,

Winston Churchill

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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.

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At The Beginning Of This War Megalomania Was The Only Form Of Sanity.

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We Must Beware Of Trying To Build A Society In Which Nobody Counts For Anything Except A Politician Or An Official, A Society Where Enterprise Gains No Reward And Thrift No Privileges

The Most Dangerous Moment Of The War, And The One Which Caused Me The Greatest Alarm, Was When The Japanese Fleet Was Heading For Ceylon And The Naval Base There. The Capture Of Ceylon, The Consequent Control Of The Indian Ocean, And The Possibility At The Same Time Of A German Conquest Of Egypt Would Have Closed The Ring And The Future Would Have Been Black.

The United States Abd Usually Be Reiled On To Do The Right Thing, But Only After They Have Tried All The Other Alternatives.

We Shall Fight In Parking Lots, We Shall Fight In Empty Fields And On Wide Streets, We Shall Never Surrender.

Nothing Can Be More Abhorrent To Democracy Than To Imprison A Person Or Keep Him In Prison Because He Is Unpopular. This Is Really The Test Of Civilization.

I Was Not The Lion, But It Fell To Me To Give The Lion's Roar.

These Are Great Days.

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.

Land Monopoly Is Not Only Monopoly, But It Is By Far The Greatest Of Monopolies; It Is A Perpetual Monopoly, And It Is The Mother Of All Other Forms Of Monopoly.

Each One Hopes That If He Feeds The Crocodile Enough, The Crocodile Will Eat Him Last. All Of Them Hope That The Storm Will Pass Before Their Turn Comes To Be Devoured. But I Fear - I Fear Greatly - The Storm Will Not Pass. It Will Rage And It Will Roar, Even More Loudly, Even More Widely.

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

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

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 Have Worked Very Hard With Nehru. I Told Him He Should Be The Light Of Asia, To Show All Those Millions How They Can Shine Out, Instead Of Accepting The Darkness Of Communism.

If Two People Agree On Everything, One Of Them Is Unnecessary.

There Is No Worse Mistake In Public Leadership Than To Hold Out False Hopes Soon To Be Swept Away. The British People Can Face Peril Or Misfortune With Fortitude And Buoyancy, But They Bitterly Resent Being Deceived Or Finding That Those Responsible For Their Affairs Are Themselves Dwelling In A Fool's Paradise.

This Is A War Of The Unknown Warriors; But Let All Strive Without Failing In Faith Or In Duty, And The Dark Curse Of Hitler Will Be Lifted From Our Age.

Bearing Ourselves Humbly Before God... We Await Undismayed The Impending Assault.... Be The Ordeal Sharp Or Long, Or Both, We Shall Seek No Terms, We Shall Tolerate No Parlay; We May Show Mercy - We Shall Ask For None.

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!

I Am Reminded Of The Professor Who, In His Declining Hours, Was Asked By His Devoted Pupils For His Final Counsel. He Replied, 'verify Your Quotations.

A Polo Handicap Is A Persons Ticket To The World.

All Babies Look Like Me. But Then, I Look Like All Babies.

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It Is Wonderful What Great Strides Can Be Made When There Is A Resolute Purpose Behind Them.

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

I Was Only The Servant Of My Country And Had I, At Any Moment, Failed To Express Her Unflinching Resolve To Fight And Conquer, I Should At Once Have Been Rightly Cast Aside.

We Know Enough To Be Sure That The Scientific Achievements Of The Next Fifty Years Will Be Far Greater, More Rapid, And More Surprising, Than Those We Have Already Experienced. ... Wireless Telephones And Television, Following Naturally Upon The Their Present Path Of Development, Would Enable Their Owner To Connect Up To Any Room Similarly Equipped And Hear And Take Part In The Conversation As Well As If He Put His Head In Through The Window.

The Inherent Blessing Of Socialism Is The Equal Sharing Of Misery.

I'd Prefer To Be Right Than Consistent.

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

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

They Have Done What They Like. Their Difficulty Is To Like What They Have Done.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

There Is Only One Answer To Defeat And That Is Victory.

The Only Thing That Ever Really Frightened Me During The War Was The U-boat Peril...it Did Not Take The Form Of Flaring Battles And Glittering Achievements, It Manifested Itself Through Statistics, Diagrams, And Curves Unknown To The Nation, Incomprehensible To The Public.

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

Gentleman, I Am Hardening On This Enterprise. I Repeat, I Am Now Hardening Towards This Enterprise.

Democracy Is The Best Form Of The Worst Type Of Government

For Good Or For Ill, Air Mastery Is Today The Supreme Expression Of Military Power And Fleets And Armies, However Vital And Important, Must Accept A Subordinate Rank.

Really I Feel Less Keen About The Army Every Day. I Think The Church Would Suit Me Better.

Watch Your Character For Your Character Is Your Destiny.

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.

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

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

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We Must Build A Kind Of United States Of Europe.

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A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing.

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

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

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

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

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In Defeat, Unbeatable; In Victor, Unbearable

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A Lie Gets Halfway Around The World Before The Truth Has A Chance To Get Its Pants On.

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A Pessimist Sees Problems In Opportunities Whereas An Optimist Sees Opportunities In Problems.

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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There Is No Greater Mistake Than To Suppose That Platitudes, Smooth Words, Timid Policies, Offer Today A Path To Safety.

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.

You Haven't Learned Life's Lesson Very Well If You Haven't Noticed That You Can Give The Tone Or Colour, Or Decide The Reaction You Want Of People In Advance. It's Unbelievable Simply. If You Want Them To Take An Interest In You, Take An Interest In Them First. If You Want To Make Them Nervous, Become Nervous Yourself...it's As Simple As That. People Will Treat You As You Treat Them. It's No Secret. Look About You. You Can Prove It With The Next Person You Meet.

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

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

It Is Always Wise To Look Ahead, But Difficult To Look Further Than You Can See.

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 Destiny Of Man Is Not Measured By Material Computations. When Great Forces Are On The Move In The World, We Learn We’re Spirits—not Animals…. There’s Something Going On In Time And Space, And Beyond Time And Space, Which, Whether We Like It Or Not, Spells Duty.

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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.

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

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Some Civil Servants Are Neither Servants Nor Civil.

Fear Is A Reaction. Courage Is A Decision.

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

Hasty Work And Premature Decisions May Lead To Penalties Out Of All Proportion To The Issues Immediately Involved.

To Try To Be Safe Everywhere Is To Be Strong Nowhere.

Victory At All Costs, Victory In Spite Of All Terror, Victory However Long And Hard The Road May Be; For Without Victory, There Is No Survival.

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Americans Are A Wonderful People: They Will Always Do The Right Thing--after Exhausting Every Other Possible Alternative.

If You're Going To Walk Through Hell, Keep Going.

If You Want To Discover New Oceans, You Must First Have The Courage To Leave Shore.

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

The Reason For Having Diplomatic Relations Is Not To Confer A Compliment, But To Secure A Convenience. [on Diplomatic Recognition Of The People's Republic Of China]

Diplomatic Relations

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

There Is In The Act Of Preparing, The Moment You Start Caring.

Without Ships, We Cannot Live.

Fancy Living In One Of These Streets, Never Seeing Anything Beautiful, Never Eating Anything Savoury, Never Saying Anything Clever!

Everybody Has Always Underrated The Russians. They Keep Their Own Secrets Alike From Foe And Friends.

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

All Men Make Mistakes, But Only Wise Men Learn From Their Mistakes.

The Very First Thing The President [truman] Did Was To Show Me The New Presidential Seal, Which He Had Just Redesigned. He Explained, 'the Seal Has To Go Everywhere The President Goes. It Must Be Displayed Upon The Lectern When He Speaks. The Eagle Used To Face The Arrows But I Have Re-designed It So That It Now Faces The Olive Branches ... What Do You Think?' I Said, 'mr. President, With The Greatest Respect, I Would Prefer The American Eagle's Neck To Be On A Swivel So That It Could Face The Olive Branches Or The Arrows, As The Occasion Might Demand.'

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

I Feel Like An Aeroplane At The End Of Its Flight, In The Dusk, With The Petrol Running Out, In Search Of A Safe Landing.

There Are Bitter Weeds In England.

These Are Not Dark Days: These Are Great Days - The Greatest Days Our Country Has Ever Lived.

The Most Important Thing About Education Is Appetite.

The English Know How To Make The Best Of Things. Their So-called Muddling Through Is Simply Skill At Dealing With The Inevitable.

You Ask, What Is Our Policy? I Will Say; 'it Is To Wage War, By Sea, Land And Air, With All Our Might And With All The Strength That God Can Give Us: To Wage War Against A Monstrous Tyranny, Never Surpassed In The Dark Lamentable Catalogue Of Human Crime. That Is Our Policy.' You Ask, What Is Our Aim? I Can Answer With One Word: Victory-victory At All Costs, Victory In Spite Of All Terror, Victory However Long And Hard The Road May Be; For Without Victory There Is No Survival.

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.

A Little Mouse Of Thought Appears In The Room, And Even The Mightiest Potentates Are Thrown Into Panic. They Make Frantic Efforts To Bar Our Thoughts And Words; They Are Afraid Of The Workings Of The Human Mind.

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

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The Greatest Lesson In Life Is To Know That Even Fools Are Right Sometimes.

A Gentleman Is A Man Who Is Only Rude When He Intends To Be.

Never Trust A Man Who Has Not A Single Redeeming Vice.

Show Me A Young Conservative And I'll Show You Someone With No Heart. Show Me An Old Liberal And I'll Show You Someone With No Brains.

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.

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.

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 Air Is An Extremely Dangerous, Jealous And Exacting Mistress. Once Under The Spell Most Lovers Are Faithful To The End, Which Is Not Always Old Age. Even Those Masters And Princes Of Aerial Fighting, The Survivors Of Fifty Mortal Duels In The High Air Who Have Come Scatheless Through The War And All Its Perils, Have Returned Again And Again To Their Love And Perished Too Often In Some Ordinary Commonplace Flight Undertaken For Pure Amusement.

This War Proceeds Along Its Terrible Path By The Slaughter Of Infantry...i Say To Myself Every Day. What Is Going On While We Sit Here, While We Go Away To Dinner Or Home To Bed? Nearly, 1000 - Englishmen, Britishers, And The Other Is America...everything Else Is Swept Away.

When I'm In Office I Always Keep Members Of Parliament Talking. If They Stopped They Might Start Thinking.

The Cost Of Solving The Comet Mystery Must Be Reckoned Neither In Money Nor In Manpower.

'keep England White' Is A Good Slogan.

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

Give Us The Tools, And We Will Finish The Job

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.

From Stettin In The Baltic To Trieste In The Adriatic, An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across The Continent.

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

The One Who Cannot See That On Earth A Big Endeavor Is Taking Place, An Important Plan, On Which Realization We Are Allowed To Collaborate As Faithful Servants, Certainly Has To Be Blind.

Faithful Servants

[my Ideal Of A Good Dinner] Is To Discuss Good Food, And, After This Good Food Has Been Discussed, To Discuss A Good Topic - With Myself The Chief Conversationalist.

There Is A Forgotten, Nay Almost Forbidden Word, Which Means More To Me Than Any Other. That Word Is England.

Some People Did Not Like This Ceremonious Style. But After All When You Have To Kill A Man It Costs Nothing To Be Polite.

To Be Conservative At 20 Is Heartless And To Be A Liberal At 60 Is Plain Idiocy.

Everyone Has His Day And Some Days Last Longer Than Others.

One Ought To Be Just Before One Is Generous

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

An American Diplomat Is Sometimes Like A Bull Who Carries His Own China Shop Around With Him.

A Sheep In Sheep's Clothing.

No Two On Earth In All Things Can Agree. All Have Some Daring Singularity.

Quotations When Engraved Upon The Memory Give You Good Thoughts.

Have No Fear Of The Future. Let Us Go Forward Into Its Mysteries, Tear Away The Veils Which Hide It From Our Eyes, And Move Onwards With Confidence And Courage.

One Does Not Leave A Convivial Party Before Closing Time.

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

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

I May Be Drunk, Miss, But In The Morning I Will Be Sober And You Will Still Be Ugly.

To Improve Is To Change; To Be Perfect Is To Change Often.

I Have Nothing To Offer But Blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat.

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

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

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

The Only Thing Wrong With Christianity Is The Lack Of Suffering.

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.

It Is Never Possible To Guarantee Success, It Is Only Possible To Deserve It.

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.

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.

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

I Had A Feeling Once About Mathematics - That I Saw It All. Depth Beyond Depth Was Revealed To Me - The Byss And Abyss. I Saw - As One Might See The Transit Of Venus Or Even The Lord Mayor's Show - A Quantity Passing Through Infinity And Changing Its Sign From Plus To Minus. I Saw Exactly Why It Happened And Why The Tergiversation Was Inevitable But It Was After Dinner And I Let It Go.

No One Ever Finds Life Worth Living - One Has To Make It Worth Living.

Life Worth Living

Having A Positive Attitude

A Nation Which Has Forgotten Its Past Can Have No Future.

One Ought Never To Turn One's Back On A Threatened Danger And Try To Run Away From It. If You Do That, You Will Double The Danger. But If You Meet It Promptly And Without Flinching, You Will Reduce The Danger By Half. Never Run Away From Anything. Never!

Double Standard

We (the British) Have Not Journeyed Across The Centuries, Across The Oceans, Across The Mountains, Across The Prairies, Because We Are Made Of Sugar Candy.

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.

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.

Vast And Fearsome As The Human Scene Has Become, Personal Contact Of The Right People, In The Right Places, At The Right Time, May Yet Have A Potent And Valuable Part To Play In The Cause Of Peace Which Is In Our Hearts.

A Communist Is Like A Crocodile: When It Opens Its Mouth You Cannot Tell Whether It Is Trying To Smile Or Preparing To Eat You Up.

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

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Procrastination

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

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

The Tired Parts Of The Mind Can Be Rested And Strengthened Not Merely By Rest, But By Using Other Parts.

Immense Deposits Of Kimmeridge Clay, Containing The Oil-bearing Bands Or Seams, Stretch Across England From Dorsetshire To Lincolnshire. [an Early Political Recognition Of The Native Resource. The Geological Survey Had Identified The Inflammable Oil Shale In Reports Since At Least 1888.]

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.

Never Stand So High Upon A Principle That You Cannot Lower It To Suit The Circumstances.

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.

What Is The Use Of Living, If It Be Not To Strive For Noble Causes.

I Trust And Believe That This College, This Seed That We Have Sown, Will Grow To Shelter And Nurture Generations Who May Add Most Notably To The Strength And Happiness Of Our People, And To The Knowledge And Peaceful Progress Of The World. 'the Mighty Oak From An Acorn Towers; A Tiny Seed Can Fill A Field With Flowers.'

No One Can Guarantee Success In War, But Only Deserve It.

Congratulations

Our Future Is In Our Hands. Our Lives Are What We Choose To Make Them.

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

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