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You See These Dictators On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police ... Yet In Their Hearts There Is Unspoken Fear. They Are Afraid Of Words And Thoughts: Words Spoken Abroad, Thoughts Stirring At Home -- All The More Powerful Because Forbidden -- Terrify Them. A Little Mouse Of Thought Appears In The Room, And Even The Mightiest Potentates Are Thrown Into Panic.

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You See These Dictators

Winston Churchill

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You See These Dictators On Their Pedestals, Surrounded By The Bayonets Of Their Soldiers And The Truncheons Of Their Police ... Yet In Their Hearts There Is Unspoken Fear. They Are Afraid Of Words And Thoughts: Words Spoken Abroad, Thoughts Stirring At Home -- All The More Powerful Because Forbidden -- Terrify Them. A Little Mouse Of Thought Appears In The Room, And Even The Mightiest Potentates Are Thrown Into Panic.

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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.

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

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We Are Plunged In A Long And Grievous Struggle. But All Will Come Right If We All Work Together To The End.

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

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They Have Done What They Like. Their Difficulty Is To Like What They Have Done.

Never Yield To The Apparently Overwhelming Might Of The Enemy.

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.

There Is Required For The Composition Of A Great Commander Not Only Massive Common Sense And Reasoning Power, Not Only Imagination, But Also An Element Of Legerdemain, An Original And Sinister Touch, Which Leaves The Enemy Puzzled As Well As Beaten.

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My Hand Seemed Arrested By A Silent Veto.

Those Who Serve Supreme Causes Must Not Consider What They Can Get But What They Can Give.

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I Had Been Brought Up And Trained To Have The Utmost Contempt For People Who Got Drunk - And I Would Have Liked To Have The Boozing Scholars Of The Universities Wheeled Into Line And Properly Chastised For Their Squalid Misuse Of What I Must Ever Regard As A Gift Of The Gods.

It Is The English-speaking Nations Who, Almost Alone, Keep Alight The Torch Of Freedom.

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Make Sure That The Beer - Four Pints A Week - Goes To The Troops Under Fire Before Any Of The Parties In The Rear Get A Drop.

Canada Is The Linchpin Of The English-speaking World. Canada, With Those Relations Of Friendly, Affectionate Intimacy With The United States On The One Hand And With Her Unswerving Fidelity To The British Commonwealth And The Motherland On The Other, Is The Link Which Joins Together These Great Branches Of The Human Family, A Link Which, Spanning The Oceans, Brings The Continents Into Their True Relation And Will Prevent In Future Generations Any Growth Of Division Between The Proud And The Happy Nations Of Europe And The Great Countries Which Have Come Into Existence In The New World.

Without Victory There Is No Survival!

I Have Found In My Experience Of War, That Plans Are Useless, But Planning Is Invaluable.

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Socialism Is A Philosophy Of Failure, The Creed Of Ignorance, And The Gospel Of Envy, Its Inherent Virtue Is The Equal Sharing Of Misery.

Democratic Socialism

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Kites Rise Highest Against The Wind - Not With It.

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I Am Very Glad There Are Quite A Number Of People Born With A Gift And A Liking For All Of This; Like Great Chessplayers Who Play Sixteen Games At Once Blindfold And Die Quite Soon Of Epilepsy. Serve Them Right! I Hope The Mathematicians, However, Are Well Rewarded. I Promise Never To Blackleg Their Profession Nor Take The Bread Out Of Their Mouths.

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The Turkish Government Began And Ruthlessly Carried Out The Infamous Massacre And Deportation Of Armenians In Asia Minor. The Clearance Of The Race From Asia Minor Was About As Complete As Such An Act, On A Scale So Great, Could Well Be.

The Salvation Of The Common People Of Every Race And Of Every Land From War Or Servitude Must Be Established On Solid Foundations And Must Be Guarded By The Readiness Of All Men And Women To Die Rather Than Submit To Tyranny.

Writing Is An Adventure.

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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.

Success Is Not Final, Failure Is Not Fatal: It Is The Courage To Continue That Counts.

I Have Not Always Been Wrong. History Will Bear Me Out, Particularly As I Shall Write That History Myself.

"i Have Not Made Any Arrogant, Confident, Boasting Predictions At All. On The Contrary, I Have Stuck Hard To My "blood, Toil, Tears And Sweat," To Which I Have Added Muddle And Mismanagement, And That, To Some Extend I Must Admit, Is What You Have Got Out Of It."

Mountaintops Inspire Leaders But Valleys Mature Them.

Talking Death Seriously Is One Of The Tragedies Of Youth

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Greatest Victory

English Literature Is A Glorious Inheritance Which Is Open To All - There Are No Barriers, No Coupons, And No Restrictions. In The English Language And In Its Great Writers There Are Great Riches And Treasures, Of Which, Of Course, The Bible And Shakespeare Stand Along On The Highest Platform.

The Rhinoceros Stood ... About Five Hundred Yards Away ... Not A Twentieth-century Animal At All, But An Odd, Grim Straggler From The Stone Age.

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Diversity Is The One True Thing We All Have In Common... Celebrate It Every Day.

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There Must Be What Mr. Gladstone Many Years Ago Called A Blessed Act Of Oblivion. We Must All Turn Our Backs Upon The Horrors Of The Past. We Must Look To The Future. We Cannot Afford To Drag Forward Across The Years That Are To Come The Hatreds And Revenges Which Have Sprung From The Injuries Of The Past.

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.

What Is The Use Of Living, If It Be Not To Strive For Noble Causes And To Make This Muddled World A Better Place For Those Who Will Live In It After We Are Gone?

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

I Would Tell Myself That I Was About To Address The Largest Mass Assembly Of Idiots Ever Gathered In The History Of Mankind.

Our Free Trade Plan Is Quite Simple. We Say That Every [citizen] Shall Have The Right To Buy Whatever He Wants, Wherever He Wants, At His Own Good Pleasure, Without Restriction Or Discouragement From The State.

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.

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.

If The Past Sits In Judgment On The Present, The Future Will Be Lost.

Our Future Is In Our Hands. Our Lives Are What We Choose To Make Them.

There Are Two Things That Are More Difficult Than Making An After-dinner Speech: Climbing A Wall Which Is Leaning Toward You And Kissing A Girl Who Is Leaning Away From You.

I Did Not Like The Man [niels Bohr] When You Showed Him To Me, With His Hair All Overhis Head.

Oh, What Is The Matter With Poor Puggy-wug? Pet Him And Kiss Him And Give Him A Hug. Run And Fetch Him A Suitable Drug. Wrap Him Up Tenderly All In A Rug. That Is The Way To Cure Puggy-wug.

Manifest Destiny Was On The March, And It Was Unfortunate That Mexico Stood In The Path.

It Is Not Given To Human Beings, Happily For Them, For Otherwise Life Would Be Intolerable, To Foresee Or To Predict To Any Large Extent The Unfolding Course Of Events.

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

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.

If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going.

Now At This Very Moment I Knew That The United States Was In The War, Up To The Neck And In To The Death. So We Had Won After All! ... How Long The War Would Last Or In What Fashion It Would End No Man Could Tell, Nor Did I At This Moment Care ... We Should Not Be Wiped Out. Our History Would Not Come To An End ... Hitler's Fate Was Sealed. Mussolini's Fate Was Sealed. As For The Japanese, They Would Be Ground To A Powder. All The Rest Was Merely The Proper Application Of Overwhelming Force.

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 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.

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.

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

The Only Way A Man Can Remain Consistent Amid Changing Circumstances Is To Change With Them While Preserving The Same Dominating Purpose.

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.

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Now That We Are, As You Say, 'in The Same Boat,' Would It Not Be Wise For Us To Have Another Conference ... And The Sooner The Better.

Some Men Change Their Party For The Sake Of Their Principles; Others Their Principles For The Sake Of Their Party

We Contend That For A Nation To Try To Tax Itself Into Prosperity Is Like A Man Standing In A Bucket And Trying To Lift Himself Up By The Handle.

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

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.

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What Kind Of People Do They [the Japanese] Think We Are?

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

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.

An Extra Yawn One Morning In The Springtime, An Extra Snooze One Night In The Autumn Is All That We Ask In Return For Dazzling Gifts. We Borrow An Hour One Night In April; We Pay It Back With Golden Interest Five Months Later.

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.

I Felt As If I Were Walking With Destiny, And That All My Past Life Had Been But A Preparation For This Hour And For This Trial... I Thought I Knew A Good Deal About It All, I Was Sure I Should Not Fail.

It Is More Agreeable To Have The Power To Give Than To Receive.

It Is A Fine Thing To Be Honest, But It Is Also Very Important To Be Right.

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.

My Mother Always Seemed To Me Like A Fairy Princess: A Radiant Being Possessed Of Limitless Riches And Power. She Shone For Me Like The Evening Star. I Loved Her Dearly.

Courage Is Rightly Considered The Foremost Of The Virtues, For Upon It All Others Depend.

For My Part, I Consider That It Will Be Found Much Better By All Parties To Leave The Past To History, Especially As I Propose To Write That History Myself.

Politics Is Almost As Exciting As War, And Quite As Dangerous. In War You Can Only Be Killed Once, But In Politics Many Times.

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.

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