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You Must Understand That This War Is Not Against Hitler Or National Socialism, But Against The Strength Of The German People, Which Is To Be Smashed Once And For All, Regardless Of Whether It Is In The Hands Of Hitler Or A Jesuit Priest.

-Winston Churchill

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You Must Understand That

Winston Churchill

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You Must Understand That This War Is Not Against Hitler Or National Socialism, But Against The Strength Of The German People, Which Is To Be Smashed Once And For All, Regardless Of Whether It Is In The Hands Of Hitler Or A Jesuit Priest.

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Never Pass Up The Chance To Sit Down Or Go To The Bathroom.

We (the British) Have Not Journeyed Across The Centuries, Across The Oceans, Across The Mountains, Across The Prairies, Because We Are Made Of Sugar Candy.

Do What You Like, But Like What You Do.

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.

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This Is A War Of The Unknown Warriors; But Let All Strive Without Failing In Faith Or In Duty, And The Dark Curse Of Hitler Will Be Lifted From Our Age.

It Is Never Possible To Guarantee Success, It Is Only Possible To Deserve It.

You Leave Out God, And You Substitute The Devil.

There Is Something Going On In Time And Space, And Beyond Time And Space, Which, Whether We Like It Or Not, Spells Duty.

Preposition: An Enormously Versatile Part Of Grammar, As In 'what Made You Pick This Book I Didn't Want To Be Read To Out Of Up For?'

You Have Enemies? Good. That Means You've Stood Up For Something, Sometime In Your Life.

In War As In Life, It Is Often Necessary When Some Cherished Scheme Has Failed, To Take Up The Best Alternative Open, And If So, It Is Folly Not To Work For It With All Your Might.

Christmas Is A Season Not Only Of Rejoicing But Of Reflection.

The Lights Of Saxon England Were Going Out, And In The Gathering Darkness A Gentle, Grey-beard Prophet Foretold The End. When On His Death-bed Edward Spoke Of A Time Of Evil That Was Coming Upon The Land His Inspired Mutterings Struck Terror Into The Hearers.

I Could Not Help Reflecting That The Bullet Which Had Struck The Chestnut [horse] Had Certainly Passed Within A Foot Of My Head. So At Any Rate I Had Been 'under Fire.' That Was Something.

Too Often The Strong, Silent Man Is Silent Only Because He Does Not Know What To Say, And Is Reputed Strong Only Because He Has Remained Silent.

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.

It Has Not Fallen To Your Lot To Command Great Armies. You Had To Create Them, Organize Them And Inspire Them.

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

All This Contains Much That Is Obviously True, And Much That Is Relevant; Unfortunately, What Is Obviously True Is Not Relevant, And What Is Relevant Is Not Obviously True.

The Old Wars Were Decided By Their Episodes Rather Than By Their Tendencies. In This War, The Tendencies Are Far More Important Than The Episodes.

The Loyalties Which Center Upon Number One Are Enormous. If He Trips, He Must Be Sustained. If He Make Mistakes, They Must Be Covered. If He Sleeps, He Must Not Be Wantonly Disturbed. If He Is No Good, He Must Be Pole-axed.

Life Is Fraught With Opportunities To Keep Your Mouth Shut.

I Hate Indians. They Are A Beastly People With A Beastly Religion.

I Think It Is The Most Important Subject Facing This Country, But I Cannot Get Any Of My Ministers To Take Any Notice.

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

Thus, Then, On The Night Of The Tenth Of May, At The Outset Of This Mighty Battle, I Acquired The Chief Power In The State, Which Henceforth I Wielded In Ever-growing Measure For Five Years And Three Months Of World War, At The End Of Which Time, All Our Enemies Having Surrendered Unconditionally Or Being About To Do So, I Was Immediately Dismissed By The British Electorate From All Further Conduct Of Their Affairs.

Nancy, If I Were Your Husband I'd Drink It.

In All The Twelve Years I Was At School No One Ever Succeeded In Making Me Write A Latin Verse Or Learn Any Greek Except The Alphabet.

The Great War Differed From All Ancient Wars In The Immense Power Of The Combatants And Their Fearful Agencies Of Destruction, And From All Modern Wars In The Utter Ruthlessness With Which It Was Fought... Europe And Large Parts Of Asia And Africa Became One Vast Battlefield On Which After Years Of Struggle Not Armies But Nations Broke And Ran. When All Was Over, Torture And Cannibalism Were The Only Two Expedients That The Civilized, Scientific, Christian States Had Been Able To Deny Themselves: And They Were Of Doubtful Utility.

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

Rules Were Made For Fools To Follow And Wise Men To Be Guided By.

Give Me The Facts, And I Will Twist Them The Way I Want, To Suit My Argument.

Russia Is A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside An Enigma.

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

There Is The Solution Which I Respectfully Offer To You In This Address To Which I Have Given The Title "the Sinews Of Peace."

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.

I Feel Like An Aeroplane At The End Of Its Flight, In The Dusk, With The Petrol Running Out, In Search Of A Safe Landing.

Already By 1900 I Could Boast I Had Written As Many Books As Moses.

Quotations When Engraved Upon The Memory Give You Good Thoughts.

Nobody Ever Launched An Attack Without Having Misgivings Beforehand, You Ought To Have Misgivings Before; But When The Moment Of Action Is Come, The Hour Of Misgivings Is Passed. It Is Often Not Possible To Go Backward From A Course Which Has Been Adopted In War. A Man Must Answer "aye" Or "no" To The Great Questions Which Are Put, And By That Decision He Must Be Bound.

It Excites World Wonder In The Parliamentary Countries That We Should Build A Chamber, Starting Afresh, Which Can Only Seat Two-thirds Of Its Members. It Is Difficult To Explain This To Those Who Do Not Know Our Ways. They Cannot Easily Be Made To Understand Why We Consider That The Intensity, Passion, Intimacy, Informality And Spontaneity Of Our Debates Constitute The Personality Of The House Of Commons And Endow It At Once With Its Focus And Its Strength.

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

To Be Really Happy And Really Safe, One Ought To Have At Least Two Or Three Hobbies, And They Must All Be Real.

[magna Carta Provided] "a System Of Checks And Balances Which Would Accord The Monarchy Its Necessary Strength, But Would Prevent Its Perversion By A Tyrant Or A Fool.

Without Courage All Other Virtues Lose Their Meaning.

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

How Dreadful Are The Curses Which Mohammedanism Lays On Its Votaries! Besides The Fanatical Frenzy, Which Is As Dangerous In A Man As Hydrophobia In A Dog, There Is A Fateful Fatalistic Apathy.

A Single Glass Of Champagne Imparts A Feeling Of Exhilaration. The Nerves Are Braced; The Imagination Is Stirred, The Wits Become More Nimble.

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An Optimist Sees The Oportunity In Every Difficulty.

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.

We See Nothing But Good And Hope In A Richer, Freer, More Contented European Commonalty. But We Have Our Own Dreams And Our Own Task. We Are With Europe, But Not Of It. We Are Linked, But Not Comprised. We Are Interested And Associated, But Not Absorbed.

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

You See These Dictators Up On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police. They're Afraid Of Words And Thought. ... They Make Frantic Efforts To Bar Our Thoughts And Words. ... A State Of Society Where Men May Not Speak Their Mind - Where Children Denounce Their Parents To The Police - Where A Businessman Or Small Shopkeeper Ruins His Competitor By Telling Tales About His Private Opinion. Such A State Of Society Cannot Long Endure If It Is Continually In Contact With The Healthy Outside World.

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He Spoke With More Eloquence Than Wisdom.

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.

The One Who Cannot See That On Earth A Big Endeavor Is Taking Place, An Important Plan, On Which Realization We Are Allowed To Collaborate As Faithful Servants, Certainly Has To Be Blind.

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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.

[much] As War Attracts Me And Fascinates My Mind With Its Tremendous Situations, I Feel More Deeply Every Year . . . What Vile And Wicked Folly And Barbarism It All Is.

Victory Was To Be Bought So Dear As To Be Almost Indistinguishable From Defeat.

History Will Be Kind To Me For I Intend To Write It.

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When A New Book Appears One Should Read An Old One.

It Is A Fine Game To Play - The Game Of Politics - And It Is Well Worth Waiting For A Good Hand Before Really Plunging.

Science Unfolded Her Treasures And Her Secrets To The Desperate Demands Of Men, And Placed In Their Hands Agencies And Apparatus Almost Decisive In Their Character. Reflecting On The Outcome Of World War I, And An Ominous Future.

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We Must Be United, We Must Be Undaunted, We Must Be Inflexible. Our Qualities And Deeds Must Burn And Glow Through The Gloom Oeurope Until They Become The Veritable Beacon Oits Salvation.

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 Began My Education At A Very Early Age; In Fact, Right After I Left College.

My Education Was Interrupted Only By My Schooling.

An Iron Curtain Has Descended Over Europe.

Please Put The Ladybug Outside Without Harming Her. (to His Butler)

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Before You Can Inspire With Emotion, You Must Be Swamped With It Yourself. Before You Can Move Their Tears, Your Own Must Flow. To Convince Them, You Must Yourself, Believe.

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

It Saves A Lot Of Trouble If, Instead Of Having To Earn Money And Save It, You Can Just Go And Borrow It.

No One Can Understand History Without Continually Relating The Long Periods Which Are Constantly Mentioned To The Experiences Of Our Own Short Lives.

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

When You Have To Kill A Man, It Costs Nothing To Be Polite.

Never Trust A Man Who Has Not A Single Redeeming Vice.

If You Wanted Nothing Done At All, Balfour Was The Man For The Job.

You Can Always Rely On America To Do The Right Thing -- Once It Has Exhausted The Alternatives.

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.

Good And Great Are Seldom In The Same Man.

Socialism Is Like A Dream. Sooner Or Later You Wake Up To Reality.

Sure I Am This Day We Are Masters Of Our Fate, That The Task Which Has Been Set Before Us Is Not Above Our Strength; That Its Pangs And Toils Are Not Beyond Our Endurance. As Long As We Have Faith In Our Own Cause And An Unconquerable Will To Win, Victory Will Not Be Denied Us.

Elderly People And Those In Authority Cannot Always Be Relied Upon To Take Enlightened And Comprehending Views Of What They Call The Indiscretions Of Youth.

There Are Few Virtues That The Poles Do Not Possess And There Are Few Errors They Have Ever Avoided.

The Problems Of Victory Are More Agreeable Than Those Of Defeat, But They Are No Less Difficult.

Victory And Defeat

Everyone Has A Right To Pronounce Foreign Names As He Chooses.

... Painting A Picture Is Like Fighting A Battle; And Trying To Paint A Picture Is, I Suppose, Like Trying To Fight A Battle. It Is, If Anything, More Exciting Than Fighting It Successfully. But The Principle Is The Same.

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

History Is Written By The Victors.

Young People At Universities Study To Achieve Knowledge And Not To Learn A Trade. We Must All Learn How To Support Ourselves, But We Must Also Learn How To Live. We Need A Lot Of Engineers In The Modern World, But We Do Not Want A World Of Modern Engineers.

If Two People Agree On Everything, One Of Them Is Unnecessary.

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.

It Is Very Easy To Say That Your Opponents Have Been Guilty Of A Breach Of Faith, But It Is A Great Mistake To Splash The Paint About So Freely That Your Words Cease To Have Any Real Meaning And Cease To Carry Any Sense Of Affront Even To Those To Whom They Are Applied And Cease To Bear Any Connection With Any Genuine Feeling Of Indignation On The Part Of Those On Whose Behalf They Are Spoken.

Watch Your Character For Your Character Is Your Destiny.

My Mother Made A Brilliant Impression Upon My Childhood Life. She Shone For Me Like The Evening Star.

The Russians Will Try All The Rooms In A House, Enter Those That Are Not Locked, And When They Come To One That Cannot Be Broken Into, They Will Withdraw And Invite You To Dine Genially That Same Evening.

I Play For High Stakes And Given An Audience - There Is No Act Too Daring Or Too Noble.

Just To Paint Is Great Fun ... Try It If You Have Not Done So - Before You Die.

[the Politician] Is Asked To Stand, He Wants To Sit, And He Is Expected To Lie.

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.

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

Never Give In, Never! Be It Concerning Large Things Or Small Things, Never, Never, Never!

The Navy Can Lose Us The War, But Only The Air Force Can Win It. Therefore Our Supreme Effort Must Be To Gain Overwhelming Mastery In The Air. The Fighters Are Our Salvation . . . But The Bombers Alone Provide The Means Of Victory. . . . In No Other Way At Present Visible Can We Hope To Overcome The Immense Military Power Of Germany.

England Has Been Offered A Choice Between War And Shame. She Has Chosen Shame And Will Get War.

I Am Your Servant. You Have The Right To Dismiss Me When You Please. What You Have No Right To Do Is Ask Me To Bear Responsibility Without The Power Of Action.

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

...have The Stresses Of War Been As Bad To You Personally As Carrying Through The Policy Of Collective Farms?

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

The Day May Dawn When Fair Play, Love For One's Fellow Men, Respect For Justice And Freedom, Will Enable Tormented Generations To March Forth Serene And Triumphant From The Hideous Epoch In Which We Have To Dwell. Meanwhile, Never Flinch, Never Weary, Never Despair.

Now This Is Not The End. It Is Not Even The Beginning Of The End. But It Is, Perhaps, The End Of The Beginning.

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".

Criticism Is Easy; Achievement Is Difficult.

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

I'm Finished ... I'm Done. What I Want Above All Things Is To Take Some Active Part In Beating The Germans ... I'd Go Out To The Front At Once.

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

Who Is Not Liberal When Young, Does Not Have A Heart. Who Is Not Conservative When Old, Does Not Have A Brain.

I Do Not Understand This Squeamishness About The Use Of Gas. We Have Definitely Adopted The Position At The Peace Conference Of Arguing In Favour Of The Retention Of Gas As A Permanent Method Of Warfare. It Is Sheer Affectation To Lacerate A Man With The Poisonous Fragment Of A Bursting Shell And To Boggle At Making His Eyes Water By Means Of Lachrymatory Gas.

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.

How Dreadful Are The Curses Which Mohammedanism Lays On Its Votaries! Besides The Fanatical Frenzy, Which Is As Dangerous In A Man As Hydrophobia In A Dog, There Is This Fearful Fatalistic Apathy. Improvident Habits, Slovenly Systems Of Agriculture, Sluggish Methods Of Commerce, And Insecurity Of Property Exist Wherever The Followers Of The Prophet Rule Or Live. A Degraded Sensualism Deprives This Life Of Its Grace And Refinement; The Next Of Its Dignity And Sanctity.

It Was Evident However That The Lawyers Would Have To Have Their Say....this Also Opened Up A Vista Both Lengthy And Obscure.

I Only Believe In Statistics That I Doctored Myself

Never Give In. Never Give In. Never, Never, Never, Never -- In Nothing, Great Or Small, Large Or Petty -- Never Give In, Except To Convictions Of Honor And Good Sense.

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

Let Us Set Up A Standard Around Which The Brave And The Loyal Can Rally.

We Build Dwellings And Thereafter They Build Us.

He Sees With Amazement That Our Defeats Are But The Stepping Stones To Victory And That All His Victories Are Stepping Stones To Ruin. It Was Apparent To Me That This Bad Man Saw Quite Clearly The Shadow Of Slowly And Remorselessly Approaching Doom, And He Railed At Fortune For Mocking Him With The Glitter Of Fleeting Success.

I'd Prefer To Be Right Than Consistent.

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.

I Do Not Understand This Squeamishness About The Use Of Gas... I Am Strongly In Favour Of Using Poisoned Gas Against Uncivilised Tribes... It Is Not Necessary To Use Only The Most Deadly Gases: Gases Can Be Used Which Cause Great Inconvenience And Would Spread A Lively Terror And Yet Would Leave No Serious Permanent Effects On Most Of Those Affected.

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

I Am Fond Of Pigs. Dogs Look Up To Us. Cats Look Down On Us. Pigs Treat Us As Equals.

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

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.

The Oldest Habit In The World For Resisting Change Is To Complain That Unless The Remedy To The Disease Should Be Universally Applied It Should Not Be Applied At All. But You Must Start Somewhere.

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

I Do Not Presume To Explain How To Paint, But Only How To Get Enjoyment.

There Is No Finer Investment For Any Community Than Putting Milk Into Babies.

It Is Not Open To The Cool Bystander . . . To Set Himself Up As An Impartial Judge Of Events Which Would Never Have Occurred Had He Outstretched A Helping Hand In Time.

Success Is Often Nothing More Than Moving From One Failure To Another With Undiminished Enthusiasm.

My Hope Is That The Generous Instincts Of Unity Will Not Depart From Us...[so That We] Become The Prey Of The Little Folk Who Exist In Every Country And Who Frolic Alongside The Juggernaut Car Of War To See What Fun Or Notoriety They Can Extract From The Proceedings.

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

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When I Warned Them [the French] That Britain Would Fight On Alone Whatever They Did, Their Generals Told Their Prime Minister And His Divided Cabinet, In Three Weeks England Will Have Her Neck Wrung Like A Chicken. Some Chicken! Some Neck!

We Shall Come Through! We Cannot Tell When, We Cannot Tell How, But We Shall Come Through.

...the High Roads Of The Future Will Be Clear, Not Only For Us But For All, Not Only For Our Time But For A Century To Come.

Good Night, Then - Sleep To Gather Strength For The Morning. For The Morning Will Come. Brightly Will It Shine On The Brave And True, Kindly On All Who Suffer For The Cause, Glorious Upon The Tombs Of Heroes. Thus Will Shine The Dawn.

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

I Think A Curse Should Rest On Me - Because I Love This War. I Know It's Smashing And Shattering The Lives Of Thousands Every Moment - And Yet - I Can't Help It - I Enjoy Every Second Of It.

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

Advertising Nourishes The Consuming Power Of Men.

First, Poland Has Been Again Overrun By Two Of The Great Powers Which Held Her In Bondage For 150 Years But Were Unable To Quench The Spirit Of The Polish Nation. The Heroic Defense Of Warsaw Shows That The Soul Of Poland Is Indestructible, And That She Will Rise Again Like A Rock Which May For A Spell Be Submerged By A Tidal Wave But Which Remains A Rock.

The Only Guide To A Man's Conscience, The Only Shield To His Memory Is The Rectitude And Sincerity Of His Actions.

I Have Left The Obvious, Essential Fact To This Point, Namely, That It Is The Russian Armies Who Have Done The Main Work In Tearing The Guts Out Of The German Army. In The Air And On The Oceans We Could Maintain Our Place, But There Was No Force In The World Which Could Have Been Called Into Being, Except After Several More Years, That Would Have Been Able To Maul And Break The German Army Unless It Had Been Subjected To The Terrible Slaughter And Manhandling That Has Fallen To It Through The Strength Of The Russian Soviet Armies.

All Wisdom Is Not New Wisdom.

It Is Not Alone That Property, In All Its Forms, Is Struck At, But That Liberty, In All Its Forms, Is Challenged By The Fundamental Conceptions Of Socialism.

All Was There-the Programme Of German Resurrection, The Technique Of Party Propaganda; The Plan For Combating Marxism; The Concept Of A National-socialist State; The Rightful Position Of Germany At The Summit Ofthe World. Here Was The New Koran Of Faith And War: Turgid, Verbose, Shapeless, But Pregnant With Its Message.

Any Idiot Can See Something Wrong. But Can You See What Is Right?

The Object Of Parliament Is To Substitute Argument For Fisticuffs.

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

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.

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.

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

Politics Are Very Much Like War. We May Even Have To Use Poison Gas At Times.

God Alone Knows How Great It Is. All I Hope Is That It Is Not Too Late. I Am Very Much Afraid That It Is. We Can Only Do Our Best.

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.

The Cemetery Is Full Of Indispensable People.

How I Hated Schools, And What A Life Of Anxiety I Lived There. I Counted The Hours To The End Of Every Term, When I Should Return Home.

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

If Europe Were Once United In The Sharing Of Its Common Inheritance There Would Be No Limit To The Happiness, The Prosperity, And The Glory Which Its Three Or Four Million People Would Enjoy.

Nothing Will Bring American Sympathy Along With Us So Much As American Blood Shed In The Field.

Perfect Solutions Of Our Difficulties Are Not To Be Looked For In An Imperfect World.

Imperfect World

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

You Can Always Count On Americans To Do The Right Thing - After They've Tried Everything Else.

If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

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