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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.

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Winston Churchill

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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.

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Healthy Citizens Are The Greatest Asset Any Country Can Have.

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Expert Knowledge Is Limited Knowledge

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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.

Watch Your Thoughts, They Become Your Words.

I Am Weary Of A Task Which Is Done And I Hope I Shall Not Shrink When The Aftermath Ends. My Only Wish Is To Live Peacefully Out The Remaining Years - If Years They Be.

These Two Great Organisations Of The English-speaking Democracies, The British Empire And The United States, Will Have To Be Somewhat Mixed Up Together In Some Affairs For Mutual And General Advantage. I Do Not View The Process With Any Misgivings. I Could Not Stop It If I Wished. Let It Roll On Full Flood, Inexorable, Irresistible, Benignant, To Broader Lands, And Better Days.

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

Writing A Book Is An Adventure.

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

There Comes Into The Life Of Every Man A Task For Which He And He Alone Is Uniquely Suited. What A Shame If That Moment Finds Him Either Unwilling Or Unprepared For That Which Would Become His Finest Hour.

Battles Are Won By Slaughter And Maneuver. The Greater The General, The More He Contributes In Maneuver, The Less He Demands In Slaughter.

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

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They Feed The Crocodile In The Hope That He Will Eat Them Last.

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

I Do Think Unpunctuality Is A Vile Habit, And All My Life I Have Tried To Break Myself Of It.

In War It Does Not Matter Who Is Right, But Who Is Left.

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Quotations When Engraved Upon The Memory Give You Good Thoughts.

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Just To Paint Is Great Fun. The Colours Are Lovely To Look At And Delicious To Squeeze Out. Matching Them, However Crudely, With What You See Is Fascinating And Absolutely Absorbing.

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In The Past We Have Had A Light Which Flickered, In The Present We Have A Light Which Flames, And In The Future There Will Be A Light Which Shines Over All The Land And Sea.

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History Is Written By The Victors.

The Times Is Speechless, And Takes Three Columns To Express Its Speechlessness.

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

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

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

You May Take The Most Gallant Sailor, The Most Intrepid Airman, Or The Most Audacious Soldier, Put Them At A Table Together- What Do You Get? The Sum Of Their Fears.

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.

Free Speech Carries With It The Evil Of All Foolish, Unpleasant Venomous Things That Are Said But, On The Whole, We Would Rather Lump Them Than Do Away With Them.

Books, In All Their Variety, Offer The Human Intellect The Means Whereby Civilisation May Be Carried Triumphantly Forward.

There Is A Place For Everyone, Man And Woman, Old And Young, Hale And Halt; Service In A Thousand Forms Is Open. There Is No Room Now For The Dilettante, The Weakling, For The Shirker, Or The Sluggard. From The Highest To The Humblest Tasks, All Are Of Equal Honor; All Have Their Part To Play.

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Who's In Or Out, Who Moves The Grand Machine, Nor Stirs My Curiosity, Or Spleen; Secrets Of State No More I Wish To Know Than Secret Movements Of A Puppet-show; Let But The Puppets Move, I've My Desire, Unseen The Hand Which Guides The Master Wire.

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.

I Had A Feeling Once About Mathematics - That I Saw It All... But It Was After Dinner And I Let It Go.

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We Make A Living By What We Get, But We Make A Life By What We Give.

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Positive Thinking

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

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It Would Be An Inconvenient Rule If Nothing Could Be Done Until Everything Can Be Done.

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

A Modest Little Person, With Much To Be Modest About.

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[there Are Dangers In] The Disposition To Hunt Down Rich Men As If They Were Noxious Beasts.

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You May Have To Fight When There Is No Hope Of Victory, Because It Is Better To Perish Than Live As Slaves.

Odds Against You

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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.

We Are Masters Of The Unsaid Words, But Slaves Of Those We Let Slip Out.

Indomitable In Retreat, Invincible In Advance; Insufferable In 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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Everything Trends Towards Catastrophe & Collapse. I Am Interested, Geared Up & Happy. Is It Not Horrible To Be Built Like That?

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The Almighty In His Infinite Wisdom Did Not See Fit To Create Frenchmen In The Image Of Englishmen.

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The Cemetery Is Full Of Indispensable People.

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Nowadays We Are Assailed By A Chorus Of Horrid Threats. The Nazi Government Exudes Through Every Neutral State Inside Information Of The Frightful Vengeance They Are Going To Wreak Upon Us, And They Also Bawl It Around The World By Their Leather-lunged Propaganda Machine. If Words Could Kill, We Should Be Dead Already.

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The Pictorial Battlefield Becomes A Sea Of Mud Mercifully Veiled By The Fog Of War.

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

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Apt Analogies Are Among The Most Formidable Weapons Of The Rhetorician.

It Is One Thing To See The Forward Path And Another To Be Able To Take It. But It Is Better To Have An Ambitious Plan Than None At All.

Have Not Manet And Monet, Cézanne And Matisse, Rendered To Painting Something Of The Same Service Which Keats And Shelley Gave To Poetry After The Solemn And Ceremonious Literary Perfections Of The Eighteenth Century? They Have Brought Back To The Pictorial Art A New Draught Of Joie De Vivre; And The Beauty Of Their Work Is Instinct With Gaiety, And Floats In Sparkling Air. I Do Not Expect These Masters Would Particularly Appreciate My Defence, But I Must Avow An Increasing Attraction To Their Work.

The British People Are Good All Through. You Can Test Them As You Would Put A Bucket Into The Sea And Always Find It Salt.

He Who Fails To Plan Is Planning To Fail.

Every Man Should Ask Himself Each Day Whether He Is Not Too Readily Accepting Negative Solutions.

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

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

Fancy Cutting Down All Those Beautiful Trees...to Make Pulp For Those Bloody Newspapers, And Calling It Civilisation.

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

The Malice Of The Wicked Was Reinforced By The Weakness Of The Virtuous.

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Historians Are Apt To Judge War Ministers Less By The Victories Achieved Under Their Direction Than By The Political Results Which Flowed From Them. Judged By That Standard, I Am Not Sure That I Shall Be Held To Have Done Very Well.

We Shall Show Mercy, But We Shall Not Ask For It.

No One Saves Us But Ourselves. No One Can And No One May. We Ourselves Must Walk The Path. Some Of Us Think Holding On Makes Us Strong; But Sometimes It Is Letting Go. Continuous Effort - Not Strength Or Intelligence - Is The Key To Unlocking Our Potential.

No Sky Is Heavy If The Heart Be Light

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

There Is No Such Thing As Public Opinion. There Is Only Published Opinion.

Next Time I Go Into The Action - I Shall Command A Hundred Men - & Possibly I May Bring Off Some Coup. Besides I Shall Have Some Other Motive For Taking Chances Than Merely "love Of Adventure".

Never, Never, Never Believe Any War Will Be Smooth And Easy, Or That Anyone Who Embarks On The Strange Voyage Can Measure The Tides And Hurricanes He Will Encounter. The Statesman Who Yields To War Fever Must Realize That Once The Signal Is Given, He Is No Longer The Master Of Policy But The Slave Of Unforeseeable And Uncontrollable Events.

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

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.

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.

At The Bottom Of All The Tributes Paid To Democracy Is The Little Man, Walking Into The Little Booth, With A Little Pencil, Making A Little Cross On A Little Bit Of Paper-no Amount Of Rhetoric Or Voluminous Discussion Can Possibly Diminish The Overwhelming Importance Of The Point.

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

The Shortest Road To Ruin Is To Emulate The Methods Of Your Adversary.

Men Often Stumble Onto The Truth But Then Quickly Dust Themselves Off And Hurry Away.

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.

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

Most Of The Significant Contributions That Have Been Made To Society Have Been Made By People Who Were Tired.

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We Must Build A Kind Of United States Of Europe.

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The Worst Mistake That A Statesman Can Make Is To Promise Victory And To See It Dashed, The Hopes Dashed.

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Opening Amenities Are Often Opening Inanities.

Advertising Nourishes The Consuming Power Of Men.

When You Feel You Cannot Continue In Your Position For Another Minute, And All That Is In Human Power Has Been Done, That Is The Moment When The Enemy Is Most Exhausted, And When One Step Forward Will Give You The Fruits Of The Struggle You Have Borne

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I Have Never Promised Anything But Blood, Tears, Toil And Sweat. Now, However We Have A New Experience. We Have A Victory - A Remarkable And Definite Victory. The Bright Gleam Has Caught The Helmets Of Our Soldiers And Warmed And Cheered All Our Hearts.

New Experiences

A Pessimist Sees The Difficulty In Every Opportunity; An Optimist Sees The Opportunity In Every Difficulty.

You Create Your Own Universe As You Go Along.

Law Of Attraction

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

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.

I'm Bored With It All. Before Slipping Into A Coma. He Died 9 Days Later.

Never Believe Any War Will Be Smooth And Easy, Or That Anyone Who Embarks On The Strange Voyage Can Measure The Tides And Hurricanes He Will Encounter.

A Communist Is Like A Crocodile: When It Opens Its Mouth You Cannot Tell Whether It Is Trying To Smile Or Preparing To Eat You Up.

If You Cannot Read All Your Books, At Any Rate Handle Them, And, As It Were, Fondle Them. Let Them Fall Open Where They Will. Make A Voyage Of Discovery, Taking Soundings Of Uncharted Seas.

Good And Great Are Seldom In The Same Man.

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 Love Learning, But Hate Being Taught.

We Get To Make A Living; We Give To Make A Life.

I Have Had To Eat My Own Words Many Times, And I Have Found It A Very Nourishing Diet.

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

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.

The Fact That In Mohammedan Law Every Woman Must Belong To Some Man As His Absolute Property - Either As A Child, A Wife, Or A Concubine - Must Delay The Final Extinction Of Slavery Until The Faith Of Islam Has Ceased To Be A Great Power Among Men.

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Americans Always Do The Right Thing, Once They Have Exhausted All Other Possibilities.

I Don't Like Standing Near The Edge Of A Platform When An Express Train Is Passing Through. I Like To Stand Right Back And If Possible Get A Pillar Between Me And The Train. I Don't Like To Stand By The Side Of A Ship And Look Down Into The Water. A Second's Action Would End Everything. A Few Drops Of Desperation.

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.

[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.

Today I May Way Before An Awestruck World; I Am Still Master Of My Fate. I Am Still Captain Of My Soul.

We Shall Not Flag Nor Fail. We Shall Go On To The End.

If You Want Me To Speak For Two Minutes, It Will Take Me Three Weeks Of Preparation. If You Want Me To Speak For Thirty Minutes, It Will Take Me A Week To Prepare. If You Want Me To Speak For An Hour, I Am Ready Now.

Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow And Sacrifice Will Be Born Again The Glory Of Mankind.

Of All The Branches Of Men In The Forces There Is None Which Shows More Devotion And Faces Grimmer Perils Than The Submariners.

Nothing Should Be Done For Spite's Sake.

Time And The Ocean And Some Guiding Star And High Cabal Have Made Us What We Are.

I Have Always Said That If Great Britain Were Defeated In War I Hoped We Should Find A Hitler To Lead Us Back To Our Rightful Position Among The Nations. I Am Sorry, However, That He Has Not Been Mellowed By The Great Success That Has Attended Him. The Whole World Would Rejoice To See The Hitler Of Peace And Tolerance, And Nothing Would Adorn His Name In World History So Much As Acts Of Magnanimity And Of Mercy And Of Pity To The Forlorn And Friendless, To The Weak And Poor.... Let This Great Man Search His Own Heart And Conscience Before He Accuses Anyone Of Being A Warmonger.

What Is The Use Of Living, If It Be Not To Strive For Noble Causes.

I Was Only The Servant Of My Country And Had I, At Any Moment, Failed To Express Her Unflinching Resolve To Fight And Conquer, I Should At Once Have Been Rightly Cast Aside.

May It Not Also Be That The Cause Of Civilization Itself Will Be Defended By The Skill And Devotion Of A Few Thousand Airmen? There Never Has Been, I Suppose, In All The World, In All The History Of War, Such An Opportunity For Youth. The Knights Of The Round Table, The Crusaders, All Fall Back Into The Past.

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.

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

Rugby Is A Hooligans Game Played By Gentlemen.

You Must Look At Facts, Because They Look At You.

He Looks Like A Female Llama Who Has Been Surprised In The Bath.

Perfectionism Spells Paralysis.

A Love For Tradition Has Never Weakened A Nation, Indeed It Has Strengthened Nations In Their Hour Of Peril.

Do Not Turn The Superior Eye Of Critical Passivity Upon These Efforts .... We Must Not Be Ambitious. We Cannot Aspire To Masterpieces. We May Content Ourselves With A Joy Ride In A Paint-box.

My Ability To Persuade My Wife To Marry Me Was Quite My Most Brilliant Achievement ... Of Course, It Would Have Been Impossible For Any Ordinary Man To Have Got Through What I Had To Go Through In Peace And War Without The Devoted Aid Of What We Call, In England, One's Better Half.

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

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.

It Is Better To Be Frightened Now Than Killed Hereafter

It Is Not Given To Us To Peer Into The Mysteries Of The Future. Still, I Avow My Hope And Faith, Sure And Inviolate, That In The Days To Come The British And American Peoples Will For Their Own Safety And For The Good Of All Walk Together Side By Side In Majesty, In Justice, And In Peace.

Science Bestowed Immense New Powers On Man, And At The Same Time, Created Conditions Which Were Largely Beyond His Comprehension.

There Is A Treasure In The Heart Of Every Man If You Can Only Find It

The Future Is Unknowable, But The Past Should Give Us Hope.

All Babies Look Like Me. But Then, I Look Like All Babies.

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?

The Trade Unions Are A Long-established And Essential Part Of Our National Life. We Take Our Stand By These Pillars Of Our British Society As It Has Gradually Developed And Evolved Itself, Of The Right Of Individual Labouring Men To Adjust Their Wages And Conditions By Collective Bargaining, Including The Right To Strike.

Leave To The Masters Of Art Trained By A Lifetime Of Devotion The Wonderful Process Of Picture-building And Picture Creation. Go Out Into The Sunlight And Be Happy With What You See.

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