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The Trade Unions Are A Long-established And Essential Part Of Our National Life. We Take Our Stand By These Pillars Of Our British Society As It Has Gradually Developed And Evolved Itself, Of The Right Of Individual Labouring Men To Adjust Their Wages And Conditions By Collective Bargaining, Including The Right To Strike.

-Winston Churchill

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The Trade Unions Are

Winston Churchill

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The Trade Unions Are A Long-established And Essential Part Of Our National Life. We Take Our Stand By These Pillars Of Our British Society As It Has Gradually Developed And Evolved Itself, Of The Right Of Individual Labouring Men To Adjust Their Wages And Conditions By Collective Bargaining, Including The Right To Strike.

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Like A Sea-beast Fished Up From The Depths, Or A Diver Too Suddenly Hoisted, My Veins Threatened To Burst From The Fall In Pressure. I Had Great Anxiety And No Means Of Relieving It ... And Then It Was That The Muse Of Painting Came To My Rescue - Out Of Charity And Out Of Chivalry ... - And Said, "are These Toys Any Good To You? They Amuse Some People."

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

I Remember When I Was A Child, Being Taken To The Celebrated Barnum's Circus, Which Contained An Exhibition Of Freaks And Monstrosities, But The Exhibit On The Program Which I Most Desired To See Was The One Described As ‘the Boneless Wonder’. My Parents Judged That The Spectacle Would Be Too Demoralizing And Revolting For My Youthful Eye And I Have Waited Fifty Years, To See The Boneless Wonder Sitting On The Treasury Bench.

This Revelation Of The Secrets Of Nature, Long Mercifully Withheld From Man, Should Arouse The Most Solemn Reflections In The Mind And Conscience Of Every Human Being Capable Of Comprehension. We Must Indeed Pray That These Awful Agencies Will Be Made To Conduce To Peace Among The Nations, And That Instead Of Wreaking Measureless Havoc Upon The Entire Globe, May Become A Perennial Fountain Of World Prosperity.

If Europe Were Once United In The Sharing Of Its Common Inheritance There Would Be No Limit To The Happiness, The Prosperity, And The Glory Which Its Three Or Four Million People Would Enjoy.

When Danger Is Far Off We May Think Of Our Weakness; When It Is Near We Must Not Forget Our Strength.

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

More Than 80 Per Cent Of The British Casualties Of The Great War Were English. More Than 80 Per Cent Of The Taxation Is Paid By The English Taxpayers. We Are Entitled To Mention These Facts, And To Draw Authority And Courage From Them.

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

The Water Was Not Fit To Drink. To Make It Palatable, We Had To Add Whisky. By Diligent Effort, I Learned To Like It.

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.

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.

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

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.

It Would Be A Great Reform In Politics If Perception Could Be Made To Spread As Easily And As Rapidly As Foolishness.

We Must Learn From Misfortune The Means Of Future Strength.

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

How Many Have Gone? How Many More To Go? The Admiralty Is Fast Asleep And Lethargy & Inertia Are The Order Of The Day. However Everybody Seems Delighted - So There Is Nothing To Be Said. No Plans, No Enterprise, No Struggle To Aid The General Cause. Just Sit Still On The Spacious Throne And Snooze.

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Headmasters Have Powers At Their Disposal With Which Prime Ministers Have Never Yet Been Invested.

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