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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

Never Give In. Never Give In. Never, Never, Never, Never -- In Nothing, Great Or Small, Large Or Petty -- Never Give In, Except To Convictions Of Honor And Good Sense.

I Neither Want It [brandy] Nor Need It, But I Should Think It Pretty Hazardous To Interfere With The Ineradicable Habit Of A Lifetime.

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

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.

Indomitable In Retreat, Invincible In Advance; Insufferable In Victory.

We Have A Lot Of Anxieties, And One Cancels Out Another Very Often.

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 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!

Armed With A Paint-box, One Cannot Be Bored, One Cannot Be Left At A Loose End, One Cannot 'have Several Days On One's Hands.

This Is No War Of Chieftains Or Of Princes, Of Dynasties Or National Ambition; It Is A War Of Peoples And Of Causes. There Are Vast Numbers, Not Only In This Island But In Every Land, Who Will Render Faithful Service In This War, But Whose Names Will Never Be Known, Whose Deeds Will Never Be Recorded. This Is A War Of The Unknown Warriors

Far Be It From Me To Paint A Rosy Picture Of The Future...but I Should Be Failing In My Duty If, On The Other Side, I Were Not To Convey The True Impression, That This Great Nation Is Getting Into Its War Stride.

In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will.

Victory And Defeat

"i Hope, Sir, That I Will Shoot Your Picture On Your Hundredth Birthday." I Don't See Why Not, Young Man. You Look Reasonably Fit And Healthy.

We Sit In Calm, Airy, Silent Rooms Opening Upon Sunlit And Embowered Lawns, Not A Sound Except Of Summer And Of Husbandry Disturbs The Peace; But Seven Million Men, Any Ten Thousand Of Whom Could Have Annihilated The Ancient Armies, Are In Ceaseless Battle From The Alps To The Ocean.

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

Eating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion.

Nothing Makes A Man More Reverent Than A Library.

For My Part, I Consider That It Will Be Found Much Better By All Parties To Leave The Past To History, Especially As I Propose To Write That History Myself.

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.

Greatest Victory

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

I Cannot Pretend To Be Impartial About The Colours. I Rejoice With The Brilliant Ones, And Am Genuinely Sorry For The Poor Browns.

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.

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

Sometimes Our Best Is Simply Not Enough.... We Have To Do What Is Required.

It Is Sheer Laziness Not Compressing Thought Into A Reasonable Space.

Safety And Certainty In Oil Lie In Variety, And Variety Alone.

There Is More Blood Than Paint Upon These Hands. All Those Thousands Of Men Killed. We Thought It Would Be A Little Job, And So It Might Have Been If It Had Begun In The Right Way.

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.

I Am All For Your Using Machines, But Do Not Let Them Use You.

We Are Weakened And We Are Tired, But We Are Not Done Yet.

I'd Rather Be Right Than Consistent.

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.

The Whole History Of The World Is Summed Up In The Fact That, When Nations Are Strong, They Are Not Always Just, And When They Wish To Be Just, They Are No Longer Strong.

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.

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

From The Days Of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, And Ema Goldman, This World Conspiracy Has Been Steadily Growing. This Conspiracy Played A Definite Recognizable Role In The Tragedy Of The French Revolution. It Has Been The Mainspring Of Every Subversive Movement During The 19th Century. And Now At Last 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 Head And Have Become The Undisputed Masters Of That Enormous Empire.

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

The Pashtun Tribes Are Always Engaged In Private Or Public War. Every Man Is A Warrior, A Politician And A Theologian Every Large House Is A Real Feudal Fortress....eve Ry Family Cultivates Its Vendetta; Every Clan, Its Feud....nothing Is Ever Forgotten And Very Few Debts Are Left Unpaid.

Our Free Trade Plan Is Quite Simple. We Say That Every [citizen] Shall Have The Right To Buy Whatever He Wants, Wherever He Wants, At His Own Good Pleasure, Without Restriction Or Discouragement From The State.

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

No Folly Is More Costly Than The Folly Of Intolerant Idealism.

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.

Great And Good Are Seldom The Same Man.

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.

Mr. Gladstone Read Homer For Fun, Which I Thought Served Him Right.

Criticism Is Easy; Achievement Is Difficult.

One Might As Well Legalise Sodomy As Recognise The Bolsheviks.

I Never Worry About Action, But Only Inaction.

Like Other Systems In Decay, The Roman Empire Continued To Function For Several Generations After Its Vitality Was Sapped. For Nearly A Hundred Years Our Island Was One Of The Scenes Of Conflict Between A Dying Civilisation And Lusty, Famishing Barbarism.

If One Has To Submit, It Is Wasteful Not To Do So With The Best Grace Possible.

You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along.

Law Of Attraction

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

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.

People Who Are Not Prepared To Do Unpopular Things And Defy The Clamor Of The Multitude Are Not Fit To Be Ministers In Time Of Difficulty.

Decided Only To Be Undecided, Resolved To Be Irresolute, Adamant For Drift, Solid For Fluidity, All-powerful To Be Impotent.

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

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.

I Have Always Felt That A Politician Is To Be Judged By The Animosities He Excites Among His Opponents.

A Sheep In Sheep's Clothing.

I Always Like To Learn, But I Don't Always Like To Be Taught.

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.

We Shape Our Buildings; Thereafter They Shape Us.

How Dreadful Are The Curses Which Mohammedanism Lays On Its Votaries! Besides The Fanatical Frenzy, Which Is As Dangerous In A Man As Hydrophobia In A Dog, There Is This Fearful Fatalistic Apathy. Improvident Habits, Slovenly Systems Of Agriculture, Sluggish Methods Of Commerce, And Insecurity Of Property Exist Wherever The Followers Of The Prophet Rule Or Live. A Degraded Sensualism Deprives This Life Of Its Grace And Refinement; The Next Of Its Dignity And Sanctity.

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

I Am In Favor Of Deliberately Spreading Methodically Prepared Bacteria Among People And Animals -- Mildew ... To Destroy The Harvests, Anthrax To Destroy Horses And Livestock, And The Plague, In Order To Kill Not Only Entire Armies, But Also The Inhabitants Of Large Regions.

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.

The Short Words Are Best, And The Old Words, When Short, Are The Best Of All.

If You Wanted Nothing Done At All, Balfour Was The Man For The Job.

The Dark Ages May Return-the Stone Age May Return On The Gleaming Wings Of Science; And What Might Now Shower Immeasureable Material Blessings Upon Mankind May Even Bring About Its Total Destruction. Beware! I Say. Time May Be Short. Referring To The Discovery Of Atomic Energy.

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.

If The Present Tries To Sit In Judgment Of The Past, It Will Lose The Future.

Air Power Is The Most Difficult Of Military Force To Measure Or Even Express In Precise Terms.

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

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

Dear Citizen, If You Were My Love, I'd Stole Your Money!' Admin If You Were My Love, I Would Ask You For Divorce And Spousal Support!

A Day Away From Chartwell Is A Day Wasted.

No Matter How Enmeshed A Commander Becomes In The Elaboration Of His Own Thoughts, It Is Sometimes Necessary To Take The Enemy Into Account.

The United States Is A Land Of Free Speech. Nowhere Is Speech Freer - Not Even Here Where We Sedulously Cultivate It Even In Its Most Repulsive Form.

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.

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.

My Hand Seemed Arrested By A Silent Veto.

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.

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

I Hate Nobody Except Hitler--and That Is Professional.

You Must Put Your Head Into The Lion's Mouth If The Performance Is To Be A Success.

When I Warned Them [the French] That Britain Would Fight On Alone Whatever They Did, Their Generals Told Their Prime Minister And His Divided Cabinet, In Three Weeks England Will Have Her Neck Wrung Like A Chicken. Some Chicken! Some Neck!

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

This Beginning With Audacity, Or Being Thrown Into The Middle Of It, Is Already A Very Great Part Of The Art Of Painting.

It Is The English-speaking Nations Who, Almost Alone, Keep Alight The Torch Of Freedom.

English Speaking

We Are Asking The Nations Of Europe Between Whom Rivers Of Blood Have Flowed, To Forget The Feuds Of A Thousand Years And Work For The Larger Harmonies On Which The Future Depends.

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.

The Nation Will Find It Very Hard To Look Up To The Leaders Who Are Keeping Their Ears To The Ground.

The People Of Asia Were Slaves, Because They Had Not Learned How To Pronounce The Word 'no'.

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?

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

Anyone Who Is Not A Liberal In His Youth Has No Heart. Anyone Who Remains So As He Matures Has No Brain!

There Is Scarcely Anything More Important In The Government Of Men Than The Exact - I Will Ever Say Pedantic - Observance Of The Regular Forms By Which The Guilt Or Innocence Of Accused Persons Is Determined.

When The War Of The Giants Is Over The Wars Of The Pygmies Will Begin.

I Drink And Smoke And I Am Two Hundred Percent Fit.

'keep England White' Is A Good Slogan.

When You're 20 You Care What Everyone Thinks, When You're 40 You Stop Caring What Everyone Thinks, When You're 60 You Realize No One Was Ever Thinking About You In The First Place. You Have Enemies? Good. That Means You've Stood Up For Something, Sometime In Your Life.

Thinking About You

The United Nations Was Set Up Not To Get Us To Heaven, But Only To Save Us From Hell.

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

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

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

I Have Taken More Out Of Alcohol Than Alcohol Has Taken Out Of Me.

We Must Learn From Misfortune The Means Of Future Strength.

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.

I Want No Criticism Of America At My Table. The Americans Criticize Themselves More Than Enough.

Baldwin Often Times Stumbles Over The Truth, But He Always Picks Himself Up And Hurries On As If Nothing Had Happened.

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.

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.

You Ought To Let The Jews Have Jerusalem; It Is They Who Made It Famous.

In Finance Everything That Is Agreeable Is Unsound And Everything That Is Sound Is Disagreeable.

Lenin Was Sent Into Russia By The Germans In The Same Way That You Might Send A Phial Containing A Culture Of Typhoid Or Cholera To Be Poured Into The Water Supply Of A Great City, And It Worked With Amazing Accuracy.

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

War Is Mainly A Catalogue Of Blunders.

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.

There But For The Grace Of God, Goes God.

Solitary Trees, If They Grow At All, Grow Strong.

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

There Is No Finer Investment For Any Community Than Putting Milk Into Babies.

It Is A Curious Fact About British Islanders, Who Hate Drill And Have Not Been Invaded For Nearly A Thousand Years, That As Danger Comes Nearer And Grows They Become Progressively Less Nervous; When It Is Imminent The Are Fierce, When It Is Mortal They Are Fearless.

We Are Really Doing Our Very Best. There Are No Doubt Many Mistakes And Shortcomings. A Lot Of Things Are Done None Too Well. Some Things That Ought To Be Done Have Not Yet Been Done...[but Britain's Effort Has] Justly Commanded The Wonder And Admiration Of Every Friendly Nation In The World.

Never, Never, Never Give Up.

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.

The Length Of This Document Defends It Well Against The Risk Of Its Being Read.

I'm Finished ... I'm Done. What I Want Above All Things Is To Take Some Active Part In Beating The Germans ... I'd Go Out To The Front At Once.

The Cemetery Is Full Of Indispensable People.

Nature Has Not Intended Mankind To Work From Eight In The Morning Until Midnight Without That Refreshment Of Blessed Oblivion Which, Even If It Only Lasts Twenty Minutes, Is Sufficient To Renew All The Vital Forces.

There Is At Least One Thing Worse Than Fighting With Allies - And That Is To Fight Without Them

I Look Like A Down-and-out Drunk Who Has Been Picked Out Of The Gutter In The Strand.

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

I Am Sorry To Have Made Such A Long Speech, But I Did Not Have Time To Write A Shorter One.

Broadly Speaking, Human Beings May Be Divided Into Three Classes: Those Who Are Billed To Death, Those Who Are Worried To Death, And Those Who Are Bored To Death.

I Was Shown A Picture By Cézanne Of A Blank Wall Of A House, Which He Had Made Instinct With The Most Delicate Lights And Colours.

The Further Back I Look, The Further Forward I Can See.

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

Never Giving Up

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

My Wife And I Tried Two Or Three Times In The Last 40 Years To Have Breakfast Together, But It Was So Disagreeable We Had To Stop.

Here Was A Place Where Real Things Were Going On. Here Was A Scene Of Vital Action. Here Was A Place Where Anything Might Happen. Here Was A Place Where Something Would Certainly Happen. Here I Might Leave My Bones.

In Franklin Roosevelt There Died The Greatest American Friend We Have Ever Known - And The Greatest Champion Of Freedom Who Has Ever Brought Help And Comfort From The New World To The Old.

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

Just As The Sentence Contains One Idea In All Its Fullness, So The Paragraph Should Embrace A Distinct Episode; And As Sentences Should Follow One Another In Harmonious Sequence, So Paragraphs Must Fit Into Another Like The Automatic Couplings Of Railway Carriages.

A Prisoner Of War Is A Man Who Tries To Kill You And Fails, And Then Asks You Not To Kill Him.

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

You Have To Run Risks. There Are No Certainties In War. There Is A Precipice On Either Side Of You - A Precipice Of Caution And A Precipice Of Over-daring.

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

When You Get A Thing The Way You Want It, Leave It Alone.

To Build May Have To Be The Slow And Laborious Task Of Years. To Destroy Can Be The Thoughtless Act Of A Single Day.

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

Life Worth Living

Having A Positive Attitude

He [president Franklin D. Roosevelt] Died In Harness, And We May Well Say In Battle Harness, Like His Soldiers, Sailors And Airmen Who Died Side By Side With Ours And Carrying Out Their Tasks To The End All Over The World. What An Enviable Death Was His.

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.

The Navy Can Lose Us The War, But Only The Air Force Can Win It. The Fighters Are Our Salvation, But The Bombers Alone Provide The Means Of Victory.

You Do Your Worst, And We'll Do Our Best.

We Build Dwellings And Thereafter They Build Us.

Meet Success Like A Gentleman; Disaster Like A Man.

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.

If You Don't Have Any Enemies In Life You Have Never Stood Up For Anything.

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

Oh, What Is The Matter With Poor Puggy-wug? Pet Him And Kiss Him And Give Him A Hug. Run And Fetch Him A Suitable Drug. Wrap Him Up Tenderly All In A Rug. That Is The Way To Cure Puggy-wug.

Writing ... It Begins As An Amusement, Then It Becomes A Mistress, Then A Master, And Finally A Tyrant.

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

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.

Continuous Effort - Not Strength Or Intelligence - Is The Key To Unlocking Our Potential.

The Stations Of Uncensored Expression Are Closing Down; The Lights Are Going Out; But There Is Still Time For Those To Whom Freedom And Parliamentary Government Mean Something, To Consult Together. Let Me, Then, Speak In Truth And Earnestness While Time Remains.

No Part Of The Education Of A Politician Is More Indispensable Than The Fighting Of Elections.

Nothing In Life Is So Exhilarating As To Be Shot At Without Result.

An Iron Curtain Has Descended Over Europe.

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.

The Definition Of Courage Is Going From Defeat To Defeat With Enthusiasm.

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

Renown Awaits The Commander Who First Restores Artillery To Its Prime Importance On The Battlefield.

Delight In Smooth Sounding Platitudes, Refusal To Face Unpleasant Facts ... Genuine Love Of Peace And Pathetic Belief That Love Can Be Its Sole Foundation ... The Utter Devotion Of The Liberals To Sentiment Apart From Reality ...though Free From Wickedness Or Evil Design, Played A Definite Part In The Unleashing Upon The World Of Horrors And Miseries [wwii]

How I Hated Schools, And What A Life Of Anxiety I Lived There. I Counted The Hours To The End Of Every Term, When I Should Return Home.

I Thought Of A Remark . . . That The United States Is Like A 'gigantic Boiler. Once The Fire Is Lighted Under It There Is No Limit To The Power It Can Generate.' Being Saturated And Satiated With Emotion And Sensation, I Went To Bed And Slept The Sleep Of The Saved And Thankful.

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.

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

Socialism Needs To Pull Down Wealth; Liberalism Seeks To Raise Up Poverty. Socialism Would Destroy Private Interests, Liberalism Would Preserve [them] ... By Reconciling Them With Public Right. Socialism Would Kill Enterprise; Liberalism Would Rescue Enterprise From The Trammels Of Privilege And Preference. Socialism Assails The Preeminence Of The Individual; Liberalism Seeks ... To Build Up A Minimum Standard For The Mass. Socialism Exalts The Rule; Liberalism Exalts The Man. Socialism Attacks Capitalism; Liberalism Attacks Monopoly.

Expert Knowledge Is Limited Knowledge

Limited Knowledge

You Ask What The Aim Is? I Tell You It Is Victory - Total Victory.

A Small Lie Needs A Bodyguard Of Bigger Lies To Protect It.

The Soul Of Freedom Is Deathless; It Cannot, And Will Not Perish.

Men Will Forgive A Man Anything Except Bad Prose.

Socialism Would Gather All Power To The Supreme Party And Party Leaders, Rising Like Stately Pinnacles Above Their Vast Bureaucracies Of Civil Servants No Longer Servants, No Longer Civil.

Air Power May Either End War Or End Civilization.

The Unnatural And Increasingly Rapid Growth Of The Feeble-minded And Insane Classes, Coupled As It Is With Steady Restriction Among All The Thrifty, Energetic And Superior Stocks Constitutes A National And Race Danger Which Is Impossible To Exaggerate. I Feel That The Source From Which The Stream Of Madness Is Fed Should Be Cut Off And Sealed Before Another Year Has Passed.

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

Working Together

Success And Happiness Spring From Facing Failure After Failure With Enthusiasm.

[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.

Your Greatest Fears Are Created By Your Imagination. Don't Give In To Them.

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.

And Do Not Suppose That This Is The End. This Is Only The Beginning Of The Reckoning. This Is Only The First Sip, The First Foretaste Of A Bitter Cup Which Will Be Proffered To Us Year By Year Unless By A Supreme Recovery Of Moral Health And Martial Vigour, We Arise Again And Take Our Stand For Freedom As In The Olden Time.

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

Being Responsible

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.

Most Of The World's Work Is Done By People Who Don't Feel Very Well.

Democracy Is The Best Form Of The Worst Type Of Government

Hitler Knows That He Will Have To Break Us In This Island Or Lose The War. If We Can Stand Up To Him, All Europe May Be Free, And Life Of The World May Move Forward Into Broad, Sunlit Uplands. But If We Fall, Then The Whole World, Including The United States, Including All That We Have Known And Cared For, Will Sink Into The Abyss Of A New Dark Age... Let Us Therefore Brace Ourselves To Our Duties, And So Bear Ourselves That, If The British Empire And Its Commonwealth Last For A Thousand Years, Men Will Still Say, 'this Was Their Finest Hour.'

There Must Not Be Lacking In Our Leadership Something Of That Spirit Of The Austrian Corporal Who, When All Had Fallen Into Ruins Around Him, And When Germany Seemed To Have Fallen Into Chaos, Did Not Hesitate To March Forth Against The Vast Army Of Victorious Nations And Has Already Turned The Tables Decisively Against Them.

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