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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.

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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.

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The Golcondas Were Considered Incomparably The Best Team In Southern India ... [but] We Defeated [them] By 9 Goals To 3. On Succeeding Days We Made Short Work Of All Other Opponents, And Established The Record, Never Since Broken, Of Winning A First-class Tournament Within Fifty Days Of Landing In India.

Out Of Intense Complexities Intense Simplicities Emerge. Broadly Speaking, The Short Words Are The Best, And The Old Words When Short Are Best Of All.

I Accumulated In Those Years So Fine A Surplus In The Book Of Observance That I Have Been Drawing Confidently Upon It Ever Since.

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The Power Of The Executive To Cast A Man Into Prison Without Formulating Any Charge Known To The Law And Particularly To Deny Him The Judgement Of His Peers Is In The Highest Degree Odious And Is The Foundation Of All Totalitarian Government Whether Nazi Or Communist.

Unpunctuality Is A Vile Habit.

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I Cannot But Think We Have Much To Be Thankful For, And More Still To Hope For In The Future.

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The Eagle Has Ceased To Scream, But The Parrots Will Now Begin To Chatter. The War Of The Giants Is Over And The Pigmies Will Now Start To Squabble.

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Censure Is Often Useful, Praise Is Often Deceitful.

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My Hand Seemed Arrested By A Silent Veto.

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I Wanted Us To Go To The Tories When We Were Strong...not In Misfortune To Be Made An Honest Woman Of.

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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.

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

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

Victory Will Never Be Found By Taking The Path Of Least Resistance.

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A Lady Came Up To Me One Day And Said 'sir! You Are Drunk', To Which I Replied 'i Am Drunk Today Madam, And Tomorrow I Shall Be Sober But You Will Still Be Ugly.

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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.

We Shape Our Dwellings, And Afterwards Our Dwellings Shape Us.

We Are Stripped Bare By The Curse Of Plenty.

How Fortunate It Was For The World That When These Great Trials Came Upon It There Was A Generation That Terror Could Not Conquer And Brutal Violence Could Not Enslave.

Peace Will Not Be Preserved By Pious Sentiments.

It Is Conceivable That I Might Well Be Reborn As A Chinese Coolie. In Such Case I Should Lodge A Protest.

Attitude Is A Little Thing That Makes A Big Difference.

I Like Things To Happen, And If They Don't Happen I Like To Make Them Happen.

Make Things Happen

But Who In War Will Not Have His Laugh Amid The Skulls?

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

Americans Are A Wonderful People: They Will Always Do The Right Thing--after Exhausting Every Other Possible Alternative.

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

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.

Don't Give Your Son Money. As Far As You Can Afford It, Give Him Horses.

An Optimist Sees The Oportunity In Every Difficulty.

I Will Not Pretend That If I Had To Choose Between Communism And Nazism I Would Choose Communism.

I'm So Bored With It All.

Hope Has Returned To The Hearts Of Scores Of Millions Of Men And Women, And With That Hope There Burns The Flame Of Anger Against The Brutal, Corrupt Invader ... In A Dozen Famous Ancient States Now Prostrate Under The Nazi Yoke, The Masses Of The People ... Await The Hour Of Liberation ... That Hour Will Strike, And Its Solemn Peal Will Proclaim That The Night Is Past And That The Dawn Has Come.

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.

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

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.

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.

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