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Writing A Long And Substantial Book Is Like Having A Friend And Companion At Your Side, To Whom You Can Always Turn For Comfort And Amusement, And Whose Society Becomes More Attractive As A New And Widening Field Of Interest Is Lighted In The Mind.

-Winston Churchill

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Writing A Long And

Winston Churchill

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Writing A Long And Substantial Book Is Like Having A Friend And Companion At Your Side, To Whom You Can Always Turn For Comfort And Amusement, And Whose Society Becomes More Attractive As A New And Widening Field Of Interest Is Lighted In The Mind.

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

Never, Never, Never Give Up.

Nothing Can Save England If She Will Not Save Herself. If We Lose Faith In Ourselves, In Our Capacity To Guide And Govern, If We Lose Our Will To Live, Then Indeed Our Story Is Told.

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

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.

Politics Is More Dangerous Than War, For In War You Are Only Killed Once.

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

Gentleman, I Am Hardening On This Enterprise. I Repeat, I Am Now Hardening Towards This Enterprise.

There Is No Such Thing As A Good Tax.

Unpunctuality Is A Vile Habit.

Now At Last The Slowly Gathered, Long-pent-up Fury Of The Storm Broke Upon Us. Four Or Five Millions Of Men Met Each Other In The First Shock Of The Most Merciless Of All The Wars Of Which Record Has Been Kept.

At The Depths Of That Dusty Soul There Is Nothing But Abject Surrender.

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.

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.

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

If I Stay On For The Time Being, Bearing The Burden At My Age, It Is Not Because Of Love For Power Or Office. I Have Had An Ample Share Of Both. If I Stay It Is Because I Have A Feeling That I May, Through Things That Have Happened, Have An Influence About What I Care About Above All Else, The Building Of A Sure And Lasting Peace.

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.

The Flame Of Christian Ethics Is Still Our Highest Guide.

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'.

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

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

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

They [the Labour Party] Are Not Fit To Manage A Whelk Stall.

We Are Happier In Many Ways When We Are Old Than When We Were Young. The Young Sow Wild Oats. The Old Grow Sage.

In Hitler's Launching Of The Nazi Campaign Upon Russia We Can Already See, After Less Than Six Months Of Fighting, That He Made One Of The Outstanding Blunders Of History, And The Results So Far Realized Constitute An Event Of Cardinal Importance In The Final Decision Of The War.

For With Primacy In Power Is Also Joined An Awe Inspiring Accountability To The Future.

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

The Tank Was Originally Invented To Clear A Way For The Infantry In The Teeth Of Machine-gun Fire. Now It Is The Infantry Who Will Have To Clear A Way For The Tanks.

There Is A Hush Over All Europe, Nay, Over All The World. Alas! It Is The Hush Of Suspense, And In Many Lands It Is The Hush Of Fear. Listen! No, Listen Carefully, I Think I Hear Somethingyes, There It Was Quite Clear. Dont You Hear It? It Is The Tramp Of Armies Crunching The Gravel Of The Paradegrounds, Splashing Through Rain-soaked Fields, The Tramp Of Two Million German Soldiers And More Than A Million Italiansgoing On Maneuversyes, Only On Maneuvers!

Courage Is What It Takes To Stand Up And Speak; Courage Is Also What It Takes To Sit Down And Listen.

The Substitution Of The Internal Combustion Engine For The Horse Marked A Very Gloomy Milestone In The Progress Of Mankind.

If We Are Together Nothing Is Impossible. If We Are Divided All Will Fail.

The Only Traditions Of The Royal Navy Are Rum, Sodomy And The Lash.

In Wartime, Truth Is So Precious That She Should Always Be Attended By A Bodyguard Of Lies.

Never Give Up On Something That You Can't Go A Day Without Thinking About.

Atlee Is A Very Modest Man. And With Reason.

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.

Painting Is The Same Kind Of Problem As Unfolding A Long, Sustained Interlocked Argument... It Is A Proposition Commanded By A Single Unity Of Conception.

Never Give In, Never Give In, Never Give In.

It Is Alarming ... To See Mr Gandhi, A Seditious Middle Temple Lawyer, Now Posing As A Fakir Of A Type Well-known In The East, Striding Half-naked Up The Steps Of The Vice-regal Palace While He Is Still Organising And Conducting A Campaign Of Civil Disobedience.

Those Who Can Win A War Well Can Rarely Make A Good Peace And Those Who Could Make A Good Peace Would Never Have Won The War.

With Opportunity Comes Responsibility.

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

I Was Happy As A Child With My Toys In My Nursery. I Been Happier Every Year Since I Became A Man. But This Interlude Of School Makes A Somber Grey Patch Upon The Chart Of My Journey. It Was A Unending Spell Of Worries That Did Not Then Seem Petty, And Of Toil Uncheered By Fruition; A Time Of Discomfort, Restriction And Purposeless Monotony.

Although Always Prepared For Martyrdom, I Preferred That It Should Be Postponed.

Golf. Trying To Knock A Tiny Ball Into An Even Smaller Hole With Implements Ill Suited To The Purpose.

We Must Learn From Misfortune The Means Of Future Strength.

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.

One Cannot Leap A Chasm In Two Jumps.

There Is Nothing Wrong With Change, If It Is In The Right Direction.

The True Guide Of Life Is To Do What Is Right.

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Woe Betide The Leaders Now Perched On Their Dizzy Pinnacles Of Triumph If They Cast Away At The Conference Table What The Soldiers Had Won On A Hundred Bloodsoaked Battlefields.

You Can Measure A Man's Character By The Choices He Makes Under Pressure.

Logic Is A Poor Guide Compared With Custom.

We Are Waiting For The Long-promised Invasion. So Are The Fishes.

If A Woman Has "it," She Doesn't Need Anything Else; But If She Doesn't Have "it," It Doesn't Matter What Else She Has.

He Spoke With More Eloquence Than Wisdom.

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The Aryan Stock Is Bound To Triumph.

It Is Better To Be Frightened Now Than Killed Hereafter

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

By Being So Long In The Lowest Form [at Harrow] I Gained An Immense Advantage Over The Cleverer Boys. . . . I Got Into My Bones The Essential Structure Of The Ordinary British Sentence - Which Is A Noble Thing. Naturally I Am Biased In Favor Of Boys Learning English; I Would Make Them All Learn English: And Then I Would Let The Clever Ones Learn Latin As An Honor, And Greek As A Treat.

There Are No People In The World Who Are So Slow To Develop Hostile Feelings Against A Foreign Country As The Americans, And No People Who, Once Estranged, Are More Difficult To Win Back.

Watch Your Character For Your Character Is Your Destiny.

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

Men Occasionally Stumble Over The Truth, But Most Of Them Pick Themselves Up And Hurry Off As If Nothing Had Happened.

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I Would Say To The House, As I Said To Those Who Have Joined This Government: I Have Nothing To Offer But Blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat.

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Never Give In Except To Convictions Of Honour And Good Sense. Never Yield To Force; Never Yield To The Apparently Overwhelming Might Of The Enemy.

I Built With My Own Hands ... A Large Swimming-pool Which Was Filtered To Limpidity And Could Be Heated To Supplement Our Fickle Sunshine.

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Mr Churchill, To What Do You Attribute Your Success In Life? Conservation Of Energy. Never Stand Up When You Can Sit Down. And Never Sit Down When You Can Lie Down.

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Is It Possible To Get Another Key? I Think I've Left Mine In The Room.

It Was At "little Lodge" I Was First Menaced With Education. The Approach Of A Sinister Figure Described As 'the Governess' Was Announced.

Beware Of Driving Men To Desperation. Even A Cornered Rat Is Dangerous.

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

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

Where My Reason, Imagination Or Interest Were Not Engaged, I Would Not Or I Could Not Learn.

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.

History With Its Flickering Lamp Stumbles Along The Trail Of The Past, Trying To Reconstruct Its Scenes, To Revive Its Echoes, And Kindle With Pale Gleams The Passion Of Former Days. What Is The Worth Of All This? The Only Guide To A Man Is His Conscience; The Only Shield To His Memory Is The Rectitude And Sincerity Of His Actions. It Is Very Imprudent To Walk Through Life Without This Shield, Because We Are So Often Mocked By The Failure Of Our Hopes And The Upsetting Of Our Calculations; But With This Shield, However The Fates May Play, We March Always In The Ranks Of Honor.

He Who Fails To Plan Is Planning To Fail.

These Are Not Dark Days: These Are Great Days - The Greatest Days Our Country Has Ever Lived.

The Gift Of A Common Tongue Is A Priceless Inheritance And It May Well Some Day Become The Foundation Of A Common Citizenship.

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

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.

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We Must Be Very Careful Not To Assign This Deliverance The Attributes Of A Victory. Wars Are Not Won By Evacuations

If You Go On With This Nuclear Arms Race, All You Are Going To Do Is Make The Rubble Bounce.

Do Not Trust Any Statistics You Did Not Fake Yourself.

The Truth Is Incontrovertible. Malice May Attack It, Ignorance May Deride It, But In The End, There It Is.

We Know Enough To Be Sure That The Scientific Achievements Of The Next Fifty Years Will Be Far Greater, More Rapid, And More Surprising, Than Those We Have Already Experienced. ... Wireless Telephones And Television, Following Naturally Upon The Their Present Path Of Development, Would Enable Their Owner To Connect Up To Any Room Similarly Equipped And Hear And Take Part In The Conversation As Well As If He Put His Head In Through The Window.

Appeasement Is Feeding The Crocodile, Hoping He Will Eat You Last.

I Liked Wine, Both Red And White, And Especially Champagne; And On Very Special Occasions I Could Even Drink A Small Glass Of Brandy.

Success Consists Of Going From Failure To Failure Without Loss Of Enthusiasm.

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.

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

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

War Is Horrible, But Slavery Is Worse.

For Good Or For Ill, Air Mastery Is Today The Supreme Expression Of Military Power And Fleets And Armies, However Vital And Important, Must Accept A Subordinate Rank.

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

If You Find A Job You Love, You'll Never Work Again.

We Shall Not Fail Or Falter; We Shall Not Weaken Or Tire. Neither The Sudden Shock Of Battle, Nor The Long-drawn Trials Of Vigilance And Exertion Will Wear Us Down. Give Us The Tools And We Will Finish The Job.

Hatred Plays The Same Part In Government As Acid In Chemistry.

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

The Main Vice Of Capitalism Is The Uneven Distribution Of Prosperity. The Main Vice Of Socialism Is The Even Distribution Of Misery.

Here Is The Answer Which I Will Give To President Roosevelt. Give Us The Tools, And We Will Finish The Job.

Good And Great Are Seldom In The Same Man.

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

The Late M. Venizelos Observed That In All Her Wars Englandhe Should Have Said Britain, Of Coursealways Wins One Battlethe Last.

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

The Gratitude Of Every Home In Our Island, In Our Empire, And Indeed Throughout The World, Except In The Abodes Of The Guilty, Goes Out To The British Airmen Who, Undaunted By Odds, Unwearied In Their Constant Challenge And Mortal Danger, Are Turning The Tide Of The World War By Their Prowess And By Their Devotion. Never In The Field Of Human Conflict Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few.

Diplomacy Is The Art Of Telling Plain Truths Without Giving Offense.

You Leave Out God, And You Substitute The Devil.

To Be Conservative At 20 Is Heartless And To Be A Liberal At 60 Is Plain Idiocy.

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

Want Of Foresight, Unwillingness To Act When Action Would Be Simple And Effective, Lack Of Clear Thinking, Confusion Of Counsel Until The Emergency Comes, Until Self-preservation Strikes Its Jarring Gong - These Are The Features Which Constitute The Endless Repetition Of History.

I Am Convinced That There Is No Smarter, Handier, Or More Adaptable Body Of Troops In The World.

History's Villains Are More Easily Recognized In Retrospect. In An Article Published In 1935 And Reprinted In 1937, Winston Churchill Expressed A Curious Ambivalence Towards The German Chancellor Prior To The Outbreak Of War: We Cannot Tell Whether Hitler Will Be The Man Who Will Once Again Let Loose Upon The World Another War In Which Civilization Will Irretrievably Succumb, Or Whether He Will Go Down In History As The Man Who Restored Honour And Peace Of Mind To The Great Germanic Nation. . . .

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.

Nothing Is More Dangerous In Wartime Than To Live In The Temperamental Atmosphere Of A Gallup Poll, Always Feeling Ones Pulse And Taking Ones Temperature. I See That A Speaker At The Week-end Said That This Was A Time When Leaders Should Keep Their Ears To The Ground. All I Can Say Is That The British Nation Will Find It Very Hard To Look Up To Leaders Who Are Detected In That Somewhat Ungainly Posture.

872, Ivar, King Of The Northmen Of All Ireland And Britain , Ended His Life." He Had Conquered Mercia And East Anglia. He Had Captured The Major Stronghold Of The Kingdom Of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden With Loot And Seemingly Invincible, He Settled In Dublin And Died There Peacefully Two Years Later. The Pious Chroniclers Report That He "slept In Christ." Thus It May Be That He Had The Best Of Both Worlds.

All Dogs Look Up To You. All Cats Look Down On You. Only The Pig Looks At You As An Equal

The Positive Thinker Sees The Invisible, Feels The Intangible, And Achieves The Impossible.

From Stettin In The Baltic To Trieste In The Atlantic, An Iron Curtain Has Descended Across The Continent. Behind The Line Lie All The Capitals Of The Ancient States Of Central And Eastern Europe... All These Famous Cities And The Populations Around Them Lie In What I Must Call The Soviet Sphere, And All Are Subject In One Form Or Another, Not Only To Soviet Influence But To A Very High And, In Many Cases, Increasing Measure Of Control From Moscow.

Little Did We Guess That What Has Been Called The Century Of The Common Man Would Witness As Its Outstanding Feature More Common Men Killing Each Other With Greater Facilities Than Any Other Five Centuries Together In The History Of The World.

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

We Have Not Journeyed All This Way Because We Are Made Of Sugar Candy.

Eating Words Has Never Given Me Indigestion.

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

Here Life Itself, Life At Its Best And Healthiest, Awaits The Caprice Of The Bullet. Let Us See The Development Of The Day. All Else May Stand Over, Perhaps For Ever. Existence Is Never So Sweet As When It Is At Hazard.

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

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

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 Inherent Vice Of Capitalism Is The Unequal Sharing Of Blessings; The Inherent Virtue Of Socialism Is The Equal Sharing Of Miseries.

We Have Always Found The Irish A Bit Odd. They Refuse To Be English.

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.

Victory Is Only Wrested By Running Risks.

A Joke Is A Very Serious Thing.

And What A Plan! This Vast Operation Is Undoubtedly The Most Complicated And Difficult That Has Ever Occurred.

The Belief That Security Can Be Obtained By Throwing A Small State To The Wolves Is A Fatal Delusion.

We Must Recognise That We Have A Great Inheritance In Our Possession, Which Represents The Prolonged Achievement Of The Centuries; That There Is Not One Of Our Simple Uncounted Rights Today For Which Better Men Than We Are Have Not Died On The Scaffold Or The Battlefield. We Have Not Only A Great Treasure; We Have A Great Cause. Are We Taking Every Measure Within Our Power To Defend That Cause?

Danger, If Met Head On, Can Be Nearly Halved

The English Are Loth To Express Their Feelings, But In My Stall In The Choir I Could Feel The Pent-up, Passionate Emotion, And Also The Fear Of The Congregation, Not Of Death Or Wounds Or Material Loss, But Of Defeat And The Final Ruin Of Britain.

If You Travel The Earth, You Will Find It Is Largely Divided Into Two Classes Of People-people Who Say 'i Wonder Why Such And Such Is Not Done" And People Who Say "now Who Is Going To Prevent Me From Doing That Thing?"

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

Of All The Small Nations Of This Earth, Perhaps Only The Ancient Greeks Surpass The Scots In Their Contribution To Mankind.

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

I Feel Devoutly Thankful To Have Been Born Fond Of Writing.

What Kind Of People Do They Think We Are? Is It Possible They Do Not Realize That We Shall Never Cease To Persevere Against Them Until They Have Been Taught A Lesson Which They And The World Will Never Forget?

I Pass With Relief From The Tossing Sea Of Cause And Theory To The Firm Ground Of Result And Fact.

I Trust And Believe That This College, This Seed That We Have Sown, Will Grow To Shelter And Nurture Generations Who May Add Most Notably To The Strength And Happiness Of Our People, And To The Knowledge And Peaceful Progress Of The World. 'the Mighty Oak From An Acorn Towers; A Tiny Seed Can Fill A Field With Flowers.'

We Need To Be Strong In Order To Avoid War; And To Win. A Politician Looks Forward Only To The Next Election. A Statesman Looks Forward To The Next Generation. Any Person Who Is Over 30 And Is Not A Conservative, Has No Brains.

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.

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

There Is No Doubt That It Is Around The Family And The Home That All The Greatest Virtues, The Most Dominating Virtues Of Human, Are Created, Strengthened And Maintained.

A Man Who Gets The Reputation Of Rising At Dawn Can Sleep To Noon.

Happy Are The Painters, For They Shall Not Be Lonely. Light And Colour, Peace And Hope, Will Keep Them Company To The End Of The Day.

The End Of The Day

Soviet Union Foreign Policy Is A Puzzle Inside A Riddle Wrapped In An Enigma, And The Key Is Russian Nationalism.

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.

If You're Going To Walk Through Hell, Keep Going.

Sure I Am Of This, That You Have Only To Endure To Conquer. You Have Only To Persevere To Save Yourselves, And To Save All Those Who Rely Upon You. You Have Only To Go Right On, And At The End Of The Road, Be It Short Or Long, Victory And Honor Will Be Found.

When We Run Out Of Money, We Have To Start Thinking.

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.

A Little Mouse Of Thought Appears In The Room, And Even The Mightiest Potentates Are Thrown Into Panic. They Make Frantic Efforts To Bar Our Thoughts And Words; They Are Afraid Of The Workings Of The Human Mind.

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.

If You Destroy A Free Market You Create A Black Market.

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.

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

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

There Never Will Be Enough For Everything While The World Goes On. The More That Is Given The More There Will Be Needed.

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

There Are Two Processes Which We Adopt Consciously Or Unconsciously When We Try To Prophesy. We Can Seek A Period In The Past Whose Conditions Resemble As Closely As Possible Those Of Our Day, And Presume That The Sequel To That Period Will, Save For Some Minor Alterations, Be Similar. Secondly, We Can Survey The General Course Of Development In Our Immediate Past, And Endeavor To Prolong It Into The Near Future. The First Is The Method The Historian; The Second That Of The Scientist. Only The Second Is Open To Us Now, And This Only In A Partial Sphere.

Courage Is The Greatest Virtue Because It Guarantees All The Rest.

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

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."

Thus, Be Every Device From The Stick To The Carrot, The Emaciated Austrian Donkey Is Made To Pull The Nazi Barrow Up An Ever-steepening Hill.

Nothing Is More Costly, Nothing Is More Sterile, Than Vengeance.

These Are Great Days.

The Difference Between Mere Management And Leadership Is Communication.

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

Always Remember, A Cat Looks Down On Man, A Dog Looks Up To Man, But A Pig Will Look Man Right In The Eye And See His Equal.

Danger Gathers Upon Our Path. We Cannot Afford - We Have No Right - To Look Back. We Must Look Forward... The Stronger The Advocate Of Monarchical Principle A Man May Be, The More Zealously He Must Now Endeavor To Fortify The Throne And To Give To His Majesty's Successor That Strength Which Can Only Come From The Love Of A United Nation And Empire.

Life Can Either Be Accepted Or Changed. If It Is Not Accepted, It Must Be Changed. If It Cannot Be Changed, Then It Must Be Accepted.

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

The Man Who Can Master His Time Can Master Nearly Anything.

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