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...the Schemes Of The International Jews. The Adherents Of This Sinister Confederacy Are Mostly Men Reared Up Among The Unhappy Populations Of Countries Where Jews Are Persecuted On Account Of Their Race... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilisation... This Band Of Extraordinary Personalities From The Underworld Of The Great Cities Of Europe And America Have Gripped The Russian People By The Hair Of Their Heads And Have Become Practically The Undisputed Masters Of That Enormous Empire.

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...the Schemes Of The International Jews. The Adherents Of This Sinister Confederacy Are Mostly Men Reared Up Among The Unhappy Populations Of Countries Where Jews Are Persecuted On Account Of Their Race... This World-wide Conspiracy For The Overthrow Of Civilisation... This Band Of Extraordinary Personalities From The Underworld Of The Great Cities Of Europe And America Have Gripped The Russian People By The Hair Of Their Heads And Have Become Practically The Undisputed Masters Of That Enormous Empire.

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

When One Is In Office One Has No Idea How Damnable Things Can Feel To The Ordinary Rank And File Of The Public.

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

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.

Is The Only Lesson Of History To Be That Mankind Is Unteachable?

War Is Mainly A Catalogue Of Blunders.

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.

To Achieve The Extirpation Of Nazi Tyranny There Are No Lengths Of Violence To Which We Will Not Go.

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.

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

Give Us The Tools, And We Will Finish The Job

The Test Of Real Character Is What A Man Does When He Is Tired.

The Gin And Tonic Has Saved More Englishmen's Lives, And Minds, Than All The Doctors In The Empire.

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

Christopher Columbus Was The First Socialist: He Didn't Know Where He Was Going, He Didn?t Know Where He Was? And He Did It All At Taxpayers Expense.

Indeed I Do Not Think We Should Be Justified In Using Any But The More Sombre Tones And Colours While Our People, Our Empire, And Indeed The Whole English-speaking World Are Passing Through A Dark And Deadly Valley.

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.

Playing Golf Is Like Chasing A Quinine Pill Around A Cow Pasture.

Science Has Given To This Generation The Means Of Unlimited Disaster Or Of Unlimited Progress. There Will Remain The Greater Task Of Directing Knowledge Lastingly Towards The Purpose Of Peace And Human Good.

This Generation

Now This Is Not The End. It Is Not Even The Beginning Of The End. But It Is, Perhaps, The End Of The Beginning.

I Would Tell Myself That I Was About To Address The Largest Mass Assembly Of Idiots Ever Gathered In The History Of Mankind.

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

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

Never Giving Up

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

Without Ships, We Cannot Live.

Let Us Set Up A Standard Around Which The Brave And The Loyal Can Rally.

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.

Let Us Reconcile Ourselves To The Mysterious Rhythm Of Our Destinies, Such As They Must Be In This World Of Space And Time.

Don't Give Your Sons Money. Give Them Horses. Many A Good Son Has Been Ruined Through The Acquisition Of Money But No Good Son Has Been Ruined Through The Acquisition Of Horses. Unless They Fell And Broke Their Neck, Which When Taken At The Gallop Is A Very Good Death To Die.

I Think It Is The Most Important Subject Facing This Country, But I Cannot Get Any Of My Ministers To Take Any Notice.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt Was Like Opening Your First Bottle Of Champagne; Knowing Him Was Like Drinking It.

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

Some Men Change Their Party For The Sake Of Their Principles; Others Their Principles For The Sake Of Their Party

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

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

Make Things Happen

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.

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

Democracy Means That When There's A Knock In The Door At 3 Am, It's Probably The Milkman.

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.

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

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.

One Is Quite Astonished To Find How Many Things There Are In The Landscape, And In Every Object In It, One Never Noticed Before. And This Is A Tremendous New Pleasure And Interest Which Invests Every Walk Or Drive With An Added Object. So Many Colours On The Hillside, Each Different In Shadow And In Sunlight; Such Brilliant Reflections In The Pool, Each A Key Lower Than What They Repeat; Such Lovely Lights Gilding Or Silvering Surface Or Outline, All Tinted Exquisitely With Pale Colour, Rose, Orange, Green Or Violet.

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.

Success Always Demands A Greater Effort.

There Is Required For The Composition Of A Great Commander Not Only Massive Common Sense And Reasoning Power, Not Only Imagination, But Also An Element Of Legerdemain, An Original And Sinister Touch, Which Leaves The Enemy Puzzled As Well As Beaten.

I Love To Learn But I Do Not Want To Be Taught

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

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

Neville Chamberlain Looked At Foreign Affairs Through The Wrong End Of A Municipal Drainpipe.

Let Our Advance Worrying Become Advance Thinking And Planning.

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.

One Man With Conviction Will Overwhelm A Hundred Who Have Only Opinions.

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

Imperfect World

I'd Prefer To Be Right Than Consistent.

Even Fools Are Right Sometimes.

If You Find Something You Really Love, You Will Never Work Again.

Time And The Ocean And Some Guiding Star And High Cabal Have Made Us What We Are.

Those Who Plan Do Better Than Those Who Do Not Plan, Even Should They Rarely Stick To Their Plan.

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

We Are Plunged In A Long And Grievous Struggle. But All Will Come Right If We All Work Together To The End.

Working Together

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.

I'd Rather Spend Half An Hour In The Company Of A Top Carpenter, Than Three Hours In The Company Of An Average Brain Surgeon

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

The Reserve Of Modern Assertions Is Sometimes Pushed To Extremes, In Which The Fear Of Being Contradicted Leads The Writer To Strip Himself Of Almost All Sense And Meaning.

I'm Going To Make A Long Speech Because I've Not Had The Time To Prepare A Short One.

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.

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

Mr. Attlee Is A Very Modest Man. Indeed He Has A Lot To Be Modest About.

You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along.

Law Of Attraction

In Critical And Baffling Situations, It Is Always Best To Return To First Principle And Simple Action

The Times Is Speechless, And Takes Three Columns To Express Its Speechlessness.

There Is Not One Single Social Or Economic Principle Or Concept In The Philosophy Of The Russian Bolshevik Which Has Not Been Realized, Carried Into Action, And Enshrined In Immutable Laws A Million Years Ago By The White Ant.

Nothing Is Won Without Enthusiasm.

In My Experience Of Large Enterprises, I Have Found It Is Often A Mistake To Try To Settle Everything At Once.

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.

The Is Always Much To Be Said For Not Attempting More Than You Can Do And For Making A Certainty Of What You Try. But This Principle, Like Others In Life And War, Has It Exceptions.

[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.

I Do Not Believe There Is The Slightest Chance Of War With Japan In Our Lifetime. The Japanese Are Our Allies.... Japan Is At The Other End Of The World. She Cannot Menace Our Vital Security In Any Way.... War With Japan Is Not A Possibility Which Any Reasonable Government Need Take Into Account.

Politics Is Almost As Exciting As War, And Quite As Dangerous. In War You Can Only Be Killed Once, But In Politics Many Times.

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.

Procrastination

My Most Brilliant Achievement Was My Ability To Be Able To Persuade My Wife To Marry Me.

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

The Maxim, "nothing Prevails But Perfection," May Be Spelled Paralysis.

Most Of The Significant Contributions That Have Been Made To Society Have Been Made By People Who Were Tired.

The Facilities For Advanced Education Must Be Evened Out And Multiplied. No One Who Can Take Advantage Of A Higher Education Should Be Denied This Chance. You Cannot Conduct A Modern Community Except With An Adequate Supply Of Persons Upon Whose Education, Whether Humane, Technical, Or Scientific, Much Time And Money Have Been Spent.

Never Run Away From Anything. Never!

Double Standard

I Cannot Help Reflecting That If My Father Had Been American And My Mother British Instead Of The Other Way Around, I Might Have Gotten Here On My Own.

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

Out Of Intense Complexities Intense Simplicities Emerge. Broadly Speaking, The Short Words Are The Best, And The Old Words When Short Are Best Of All.

Millions Who Could Not Follow Closely Or Accurately The Main Events Of The War Looked Day After Day In The Papers For The Fortunes Of Mafeking, And When Finally The News Of Its Relief Was Flashed Throughout The World, The Streets Of London Became Impassable, And The Floods Of Sterling, Cockney Patriotism Were Released In Such A Deluge Of Unbridled, Delirious Joy As Was Never Witnessed Again Till Armistace Night, 1918.

There Is No Worse Mistake In Public Leadership Than To Hold Out False Hope Soon To Be Swept Away.

If Britain Must Choose Between Europe And The Open Sea, She Must Always Choose The Open Sea.

We Do Not War With Races Primarily As Such. Tyranny Is Our Foe. Whatever Trapping Or Disguise It Wears, Whatever Language It Speaks, Be It External Or Internal, We Must For Ever Be On Our Guard, Ever Mobilized, Ever Vigilant, Always Ready To Spring At Its Throat. In All This We March Together. Not Only Do We March And Strive Shoulder To Shoulder At This Moment, Under The Fire Of The Enemy On The Fields Of War Or In The Air, But Also In Those Realms Of Thought Which Are Consecrated To The Rights And The Dignity Of Man.

There Is No Purpose In Living Where There Is Nothing To Do.

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.

Those Good At War Aren't Good At Peace, And Those Good At Peace Aren't Good At War.

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

I'm Bored With It All. Before Slipping Into A Coma. He Died 9 Days Later.

Mountaintops Inspire Leaders But Valleys Mature Them.

An Iron Curtain Has Descended Over Europe.

In Defeat, Unbeatable; In Victor, Unbearable

Any Clever Person Can Make Plans For Winning A War If He Has No Responsibility For Carrying Them Out.

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.

If The Human Race Wishes To Have A Prolonged And Indefinite Period Of Material Prosperity, They Have Only Got To Behave In A Peaceful And Helpful Way Toward One Another.

The Only Guide To A Man's Conscience, The Only Shield To His Memory Is The Rectitude And Sincerity Of His Actions.

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

The Power Of An Air Force Is Terrific When There Is Nothing To Oppose It.

We See Nothing But Good And Hope In A Richer, Freer, More Contented European Commonalty. But We Have Our Own Dreams And Our Own Task. We Are With Europe, But Not Of It. We Are Linked, But Not Comprised. We Are Interested And Associated, But Not Absorbed.

Those Whose Work And Pleasure Are One... Are... Fortune's Favoured Children.

It Is Arguable Whether The Human Race Have Been Gainers By The March Of Science Beyond The Steam Engine. Electricity Opens A Field Of Infinite Conveniences To Ever Greater Numbers, But They May Well Have To Pay Dearly For Them. But Anyhow In My Thought I Stop Short Of The Internal Combustion Engine Which Has Made The World So Much Smaller. Still More Must We Fear The Consequences Of Entrusting A Human Race So Little Different From Their Predecessors Of The So-called Barbarous Ages Such Awful Agencies As The Atomic Bomb. Give Me The Horse.

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.

The Russians Will Try All The Rooms In A House, Enter Those That Are Not Locked, And When They Come To One That Cannot Be Broken Into, They Will Withdraw And Invite You To Dine Genially That Same Evening.

One Time He Was Asked If He Believed In An Afterlife. After A Moment's Hesitation He Said No, That He Thought There Was Only "some Kind Of Velvety Cool Blackness," Adding Then: "of Course, I Admit I May Be Wrong. It Is Conceivable That I Might Well Be Reborn As A Chinese Coolie. In Such Case I Should Lodge A Protest."

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.]

One Day President Roosevelt Told Me That He Was Asking Publicly For Suggestions About What The War Should Be Called. I Said At Once 'the Unnecessary War'.

...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.

It May Well Be That We Shall By A Process Of Sublime Irony Have Reached A State In This Story Where Safety Will Be The Sturdy Child Of Terror, And Survival The Twin Brother Of Annihilation.

Doubts Could Be Swept Away Only By Deeds.

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.

Don't Take 'no' For An Answer, Never Submit To Failure. Do Not Be Fobbed Off With Mere Personal Success Or Acceptance. You Will Make All Kinds Of Mistakes, But As Long As You Are Generous And True, And Also Fierce, You Cannot Hurt The World Or Events.

If The Past Sits In Judgment On The Present, The Future Will Be Lost.

We Are All Functioning At A Small Fraction Of Our Capacity.

Exciting Adventures

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

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

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

I Only Believe In Statistics That I Doctored Myself

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

When I Look Round To See How We Can Win The War, I See That There Is Only One Sure Path . . . And That Is Absolutely Devastating, Exterminating Attack By Very Heavy Bombers From This Country Upon The Nazi Homeland.

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

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

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

You Must Understand That This War Is Not Against Hitler Or National Socialism, But Against The Strength Of The German People, Which Is To Be Smashed Once And For All, Regardless Of Whether It Is In The Hands Of Hitler Or A Jesuit Priest.

Maybe" When It Seems The Entire World Is Shouting "no!

The Aryan Stock Is Bound To Triumph.

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

Remember Gentleman, It's Not Just France We're Fighting For, It's Champagne!

You See These Dictators On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police ... Yet In Their Hearts There Is Unspoken Fear. They Are Afraid Of Words And Thoughts: Words Spoken Abroad, Thoughts Stirring At Home -- All The More Powerful Because Forbidden -- Terrify Them. A Little Mouse Of Thought Appears In The Room, And Even The Mightiest Potentates Are Thrown Into Panic.

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

However Beautiful The Strategy, You Should Occasionally Look At The Results.

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

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

A Love Of Tradition Has Never Weakened A Nation.

Diplomacy Is The Art Of Telling People To Go To Hell In Such A Way That They Ask For Directions.

Time Is One Thing That Can Never Be Retrieved. One May Lose And Regain Friends. One May Lose And Regain Money. Opportunity, Once Spurned, May Come Again. But The Hours That Are Lost In Idleness Can Never Be Brought Back To Be Used In Gainful Pursuits

Time Management

It Is Of No Account; After All, The Old Bird Does Not Fly Far From His Nest.

He Looks Like A Female Llama Who Has Been Surprised In The Bath.

The Statesman Who Yields To War Fever Must Realise That Once The Signal Is Given, He Is No Longer The Master Of Policy But The Slave Of Unforeseeable And Uncontrollable Events.

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.

My Hope Is That The Generous Instincts Of Unity Will Not Depart From Us...[so That We] Become The Prey Of The Little Folk Who Exist In Every Country And Who Frolic Alongside The Juggernaut Car Of War To See What Fun Or Notoriety They Can Extract From The Proceedings.

Twice In My Lifetime The Long Arm Of Destiny Has Reached Across The Oceans And Involved The Entire Life And Manhood Of The United States In A Deadly Struggle.there Was No Use In Saying We Don't Want It; We Won

Human Beings Are Of Two Classes: Those Whose Work Is Work And Whose Pleasure Is Pleasure; And Those Whose Work And Pleasure Are One.

You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along. The Stronger Your Imagination, The More Variegated Your Universe. When You Leave Off Dreaming, The Universe Ceases To Exist.

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.

...have The Stresses Of War Been As Bad To You Personally As Carrying Through The Policy Of Collective Farms?

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

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.

No Socialist Government Conducting The Entire Life And Industry Of The Country Could Afford To Allow Free, Sharp Or Violently Worded Expressions Of Public Discontent. They Would Have To Fall Back On Some Form Of Gestapo, No Doubt Very Humanly Directed In The First Instance.

Socialist Government

Writing Is An Adventure.

The World Looks With Some Awe Upon A Man Who Appears Unconcernedly Indifferent To Home, Money, Comfort, Rank, Or Even Power And Fame. The World Feels Not Without A Certain Apprehension, That Here Is Someone Outside Its Jurisdiction; Someone Before Whom Its Allurements May Be Spread In Vain; Some One Strangely Enfranchised, Untamed, Untrammelled By Convention, Moving Independent Of The Ordinary Currents Of Human Action.

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.

Russia Is A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma.

I Am A Sporting Man. I Always Like To Give Trains And Aeroplanes A Fair Chance Of Getting Away.

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

You Can Always Rely On America To Do The Right Thing -- Once It Has Exhausted The Alternatives.

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

The Opposition Occupies The Benches In Front Of You, But The Enemy Sits Behind You

The V Sign Is The Symbol Of The Unconquerable Will Of The Occupied Territories, And A Portent Of The Fate Awaiting The Nazi Tyranny.

Unconquerable Will

You May Have To Fight When There Is No Hope Of Victory, Because It Is Better To Perish Than Live As Slaves.

Odds Against You

The Rest And The Spell Of Sleep In The Middle Of The Day Refresh The Human Frame Far More Than A Long Night. We Were Not Made By Nature To Work, Or Even To Play, From Eight O'clock In The Morning Till Midnight. We Throw A Strain Upon Our System Which Is Unfair And Improvident. For Every Purpose Of Business Or Pleasure, Mental Or Physical, We Ought To Break Our Days And Our Marches Into Two.

Logic Is A Poor Guide Compared With Custom.

Never Engage In A Battle Of Wits With An Unarmed Man.

We Must Learn From Misfortune The Means Of Future Strength.

Baldwin Thought Europe Was A Bore, And Chamberlain Thought It Was Only A Greater Birmingham.

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.

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.

A Day Away From Chartwell Is A Day Wasted.

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.

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.

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.

We Would Rather See London Laid In Ruins And Ashes Than That It Should Be Tamely And Abjectly Enslaved.

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.

Are You An Action-oriented, Take-charge Person Interested In Exciting New Challenges? As Director Of A Major Public-sector Organization, You Will Manage A Large Armed Division And Interface With Other Senior Executives In A Team-oriented, Multinational Initiative In The Global Marketplace. Successful Candidate Will Have Above-average Oral-presentation Skills

Democracy Is The Best Form Of The Worst Type Of Government

We Have A Very Daring And Skillful Opponent Against Us, And, May I Say Across The Havoc Of War, A Great General.

[the Balkans] Produce More History Than They Can Consume.

Courage Is Rightly Considered The Foremost Of The Virtues, For Upon It All Others Depend.

An Aphorism Is Not An Aphorism Unless You Know What It Means.

To Secure Your Historical Standing, Be Sure You Are The First To Write About It.

We Make Our Buildings And Afterwards They Make Us. They Regulate The Course Of Our Lives.

Rules Were Made For Fools To Follow And Wise Men To Be Guided By.

If, However, There Is To Be A War Of Nerves Let Us Make Sure Our Nerves Are Strong And Are Fortified By The Deepest Convictions Of Our Hearts.

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

In Russia A Man Is Called Reactionary If He Objects To Having His Property Stolen And His Wife And Children Murdered.

Perfectionism Spells Paralysis.

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

Next Time I Go Into The Action - I Shall Command A Hundred Men - & Possibly I May Bring Off Some Coup. Besides I Shall Have Some Other Motive For Taking Chances Than Merely "love Of Adventure".

Tidiness Is A Virtue, Symmetry Is Often A Constituent Of Beauty.

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.

We Shall Defend Our Island Whatever The Cost May Be; We Shall Fight On Beaches, Landing Grounds, In Fields, In Streets And On The Hills. We Shall Never Surrender And Even If, Which I Do Not For The Moment Believe, This Island Or A Large Part Of It Were Subjugated And Starving, Then Our Empire Beyond The Seas, Armed And Guarded By The British Fleet, Will Carry On The Struggle Until In God's Good Time The New World With All Its Power And Might, Sets Forth To The Liberation And Rescue Of The Old.

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

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