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We Shall Go Forward Together. The Road Upwards Is Stony. There Are Upon Our Journey Dark And Dangerous Valleys Through Which We Have To Make And Fight Our Way. But It Is Sure And Certain That If We Persevere - And We Shall Persevere - We Shall Come Through These Dark And Dangerous Valleys Into A Sunlight Broader And More Genial And More Lasting Than Mankind Has Ever Known.

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We Shall Go Forward

Winston Churchill

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We Shall Go Forward Together. The Road Upwards Is Stony. There Are Upon Our Journey Dark And Dangerous Valleys Through Which We Have To Make And Fight Our Way. But It Is Sure And Certain That If We Persevere - And We Shall Persevere - We Shall Come Through These Dark And Dangerous Valleys Into A Sunlight Broader And More Genial And More Lasting Than Mankind Has Ever Known.

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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.

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

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.

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, If You Were My Husband, I'd Poison Your Tea. Churchill: Nancy, If I Were Your Husband, I'd Drink It.

The Jury System Has Come To Stand For All We Mean By English Justice. The Scrutiny Of 12 Honest Jurors Provides Defendants And Plaintiffs Alike A Safeguard From Arbitrary Perversion Of The Law.

Never Abandon Life. There Is A Way Out Of Everything Except Death.

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

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

We Must Never Cease To Proclaim In Fearless Tones The Great Principles Of Freedom And The Rights Of Man Which Are The Joint Inheritance Of The English-speaking World And Which Through Magna Carta, The Bill Of Rights, The Habeas Corpus, Trial By Jury, And The English Common Law Find Their Most Famous Expression In The American Declaration Of Independence.

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

The Most Beautiful Voice In The World Is That Of An Educated Southern Woman.

There Is Only One Duty, Only One Safe Course, And That Is To Try To Be Right And Not To Fear To Do Or Say What You Believe To Be Right. That Is The Only Way To Deserve And To Win The Confidence Of Our Great People In These Days Of Trouble.

Some People Like The Jews, And Some Do Not. But No Thoughtful Man Can Deny The Fact That They Are, Beyond Any Question, The Most Formidable And The Most Remarkable Race Which Has Appeared In The World.

There Are Men In The World Who Derive An Exaltation From The Proximity Of Disaster And Ruin, As Other From Success.

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.

I Have Never Developed Indigestion From Eating My Words.

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 Does Not Leave A Convivial Party Before Closing Time.

It Is Remarkable That Lord Esher Should Be So Much Astray...we Must Conclude That An Uncontrollable Fondness For Fiction Forbade Him To Forsake It For Fact. Such Constancy Is A Defect In An Historian.

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The Rhinoceros Stood ... About Five Hundred Yards Away ... Not A Twentieth-century Animal At All, But An Odd, Grim Straggler From The Stone Age.

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The Maxim Of The British People Is 'business As Usual.'

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

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