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Why Should There Not Be A European Group Which Could Give A Sense Of Enlarged Patriotism And Common Citizenship To The Distracted Peoples Of This Turbulent And Mighty Continent? And Why Should It Not Take Its Rightful Place With Other Great Groupings And Help To Shape The Onward Destinies Of Men?

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Winston Churchill

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Why Should There Not Be A European Group Which Could Give A Sense Of Enlarged Patriotism And Common Citizenship To The Distracted Peoples Of This Turbulent And Mighty Continent? And Why Should It Not Take Its Rightful Place With Other Great Groupings And Help To Shape The Onward Destinies Of Men?

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

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If I Was Your Wife Sir, I'd Poison You! Madam, If You Were My Wife, I'd Let You!

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There Are No Limits To The Majestic Future Which Lies Before The Mighty Expanse Of Canada With Its Virile, Aspiring, Cultured, And Generous-hearted People.

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

The Government Of India Had Imprisoned Mr. Gandhi And They Had Been Sitting Outside His Cell Door Begging Him To Help Them Out Of Their Difficulties.

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

War Is Mainly A Catalogue Of Blunders.

To Try To Be Safe Everywhere Is To Be Strong Nowhere.

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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.

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

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Your Day Will Go The Way The Corners Of Your Mouth Turn.

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The British Nation Is Unique In This Respect. They Are The Only People Who Like To Be Told How Bad Things Are, Who Like To Be Told The Worst.

I Will Begin By Saying What Everybody Would Like To Ignore Or Forget... We Have Sustained A Total And Unmitigated Defeat... All Is Over. Silent, Mournful, Abandoned, Broken, Czechoslovakia Recedes Into The Darkness... We Are In The Presence Of A Disaster Of The First Magnitude Which Has Befallen Great Britain And France. Do Not Let Us Blind Ourselves To That... Do Not Suppose That This Is The End. This Is Only The Beginning Of The Reckoning.

Hess Or No Hess, I'm Going To Watch The Marx Brothers.

Nobody Wants To Intervene In Russian Affairs. Russia Is A Very Large Country, A Very Old Country, A Very Disagreeable Country Inhabited By Immense Numbers Of Ignorant People Largely Possessed Of Lethal Weapons And In A State Of Extreme Disorder. Also Russia Is A Long Way Off.

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

They Say That Nobody Is Perfect. Then They Tell You Practice Makes Perfect. I Wish They'd Make Up Their Minds.

Schools Have Not Necessarily Much To Do With Education...they Are Mainly Institutions Of Control Where Certain Basic Habits Must Be Inculcated In The Young. Education Is Quite Different And Has Little Place In School.

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We Are All Worms. But I Believe That I Am A Glow-worm.

Don't Interrupt Me While I'm Interrupting.

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

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.

Without Tradition, Art Is A Flock Of Sheep Without A Shepherd. Without Innovation, It Is A Corpse.

I Drink A Great Deal. I Sleep A Little, And I Smoke Cigar After Cigar. That Is Why I Am In Two-hundred-percent Form.

Unless Some Effective Supranational Government Can Be Set Up And Brought Quickly Into Action, The Prospects Of Peace And Human Progress Are Dark And Doubtful.

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

India Is A Geographical Term. It Is No More A United Nation Than The Equator.

When You're Going Through Hell - Just Keep On Going!

Russian May Seem Narrow-minded, Impudent, Or Even Stupid People, But Can Only Pray For Those Who Are Against Them.

Bessie Braddock: "winston, You're Drunk. Churchill: "bessie, You're Ugly. But Tomorrow I Shall Be Sober.

The Head Cannot Take In More Than The Seat Can Endure.

No Stronger Retrograde Force Exists In The World. Far From Being Moribund, Mohammedanism Is A Militant And Proselytizing Faith.

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

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

One Would Have Thought That If There Was One Cause In The World Which The Conservative Party Would Have Hastened To Defend, It Would Be The Cause Of The British Empire In India ... Our Fight Is Hard. It Will Also Be Long ... But Win Or Lose, We Must Do Our Duty. If The British People Are To Lose Their Indian Empire, They Shall Do So With Their Eyes Open.

Can A Nation Remain Healthy, Can All Nations Draw Together In A World Whose Brightest Stars Are Film Stars?

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

Our Inheritance Of Well-founded, Slowly Conceived Codes Of Honor, Morals And Manners, The Passionate Convictions Which So Many Hundreds Of Millions Share Together Of The Principles Of Freedom And Justice, Are Far More Precious To Us Than Anything Which Scientific Discoveries Could Bestow.

I Like A Man Who Grins When He Fights.

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

If You're Not A Liberal At Twenty You Have No Heart, If You're Not A Conservative At Forty, You Have No Brain.

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