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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.

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The Painter Wanders And

Winston Churchill

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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.

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[magna Carta Provided] "a System Of Checks And Balances Which Would Accord The Monarchy Its Necessary Strength, But Would Prevent Its Perversion By A Tyrant Or A Fool.

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I Do Not Hold That We Should Rearm In Order To Fight. I Hold That We Should Rearm In Order To Parley.

Of All The Talents Bestowed Upon Men, None Is So Precious As The Gift Of Oratory. He Who Enjoys It Wields A Power More Durable Than That Of A Great King. He Is An Independent Force In The World.

Eating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion.

I Have Never Accepted What Many People Have Kindly Said - Namely That I Inspired The Nation. Their Will Was Resolute And Remorseless, And As It Proved, Unconquerable. It Fell To Me To Express It.

Victory Is Not Final. Defeat Is Not Failure. It's All About Courage.

I Do Not Resent Criticism, Even When For The Sake Of Emphasis; It Parts For The Time With Reality.

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

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

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There Is No Need To Exaggerate The Part Played In The Creation Of The Bolshevism And In The Actual Bringing About Of The Russian Revolution, By These International And For The Most Part Atheistical Jews.

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

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When Great Causes Are On The Move In The World, Stirring All Men's Souls, Drawing Them From Their Firesides, Casting Aside Comfort, Wealth And The Pursuit Of Happiness In Response To Impulses At Once Awe-striking And Irresistible, We Learn That We Are Spirits, Not Animals.

Pursuit Of Happiness

Strategy Is All Very Well, But It Pays To Give Thought From Time To Time To The Results.

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

It Saves A Lot Of Trouble If, Instead Of Having To Earn Money And Save It, You Can Just Go And Borrow It.

If This Long Island Story Of Ours Is To End At Last, Let It End Only When Each One Of Us Lies, Choking In His Own Blood Upon The Ground.

We Shape Our Dwellings, And Afterwards Our Dwellings Shape Us.

Kites Rise Highest Against The Wind - Not With It.

When There Is No Enemy Within, The Enemies Outside Cannot Hurt You.

Never Pass Up The Chance To Sit Down Or Go To The Bathroom.

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.

World Government

Victory Is The Beautiful, Bright-colored Flower. Transport Is The Stem Without Which It Could Never Have Blossomed.

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

Before Alamein We Never Had A Victory. After Alamein We Never Had A Defeat.

I Am Sure That The Mistakes Of That Time Will Not Be Repeated; We Should Probably Make Another Set Of Mistakes.

Expert Knowledge Is Limited Knowledge

Limited Knowledge

Never Yield To The Apparently Overwhelming Might Of The Enemy.

Free Speech Carries With It The Evil Of All Foolish, Unpleasant Venomous Things That Are Said But, On The Whole, We Would Rather Lump Them Than Do Away With Them.

Are You Insinuating That I Am A Purveyor Of Terminological Inexactitudes?

Put Together A Seaman, Soldier And Airman And What Do You Get? The Sum Of All Fears.

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

Being Responsible

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

Well, Dinner Would Have Been Splendid... If The Wine Had Been As Cold As The Soup, The Beef As Rare As The Service, The Brandy As Old As The Fish, And The Maid As Willing As The Duchess.

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

I Am Not A Bit Afraid Of Siegfried Sassoon. That Man Can Think. I Am Afraid Only Of People Who Cannot Think.

It Is No Use Dealing With Illusions And Make-believes. We Must Look At The Facts. The World ... Is Too Dangerous For Anyone To Be Able To Afford To Nurse Illusions. We Must Look At Realities.

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

He Has To Conceal What He Would Most Wish To Make Public, And Make Public What He Would Most Wish To Conceal.

Success Is Often Nothing More Than Moving From One Failure To Another With Undiminished Enthusiasm.

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

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

He Is Like A Female Llama Surprised In Her Bath.

When Someone Says To Me, Ugh, You Smoke. I Reply, Ugh, You're Ugly. I Can Quit Smoking.

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

Science Bestowed Immense New Powers On Man, And At The Same Time, Created Conditions Which Were Largely Beyond His Comprehension.

All I Want Is Compliance With My Wishes, After Reasonable Discussion.

When We Run Out Of Money, We Have To Start Thinking.

The Element Of The Unexpected And The Unforeseeable Is What Gives Some Of Its Relish To Life And Saves Us From Falling Into The Mechanical Thralldom Of The Logicians.

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If A Woman Has "it," She Doesn't Need Anything Else; But If She Doesn't Have "it," It Doesn't Matter What Else She Has.

There Was A Man Who Sold A Hyena Skin While The Beast Still Lived And Who Was Killed In Hunting It.

Watch Your Habits, They Determine Your Character.

It Is More Agreeable To Have The Power To Give Than To Receive.

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.

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

Better To Dare Mighty Things And Fail Than To Live In A Grey Twilight Where There Is Neither Victory Nor Defeat.

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