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Churchill
- Everybody is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being
extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they
like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage.
- 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 - unspeakable! - fear. They are afraid of
words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all
the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little
mouse - a little tiny mouse! - of thought appears in the room, and even
the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic.
- Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything
except death.
- The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are
right sometimes.
- Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic
may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by
so many to so few.
- I like a man who grins when he fights.
- I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken
out of me.
- There are a lot of lies going around... and half of them
are true.
- The price of greatness is responsibility.
- History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't
change the subject.
- A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it.
- When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be
polite.
- I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
- The best argument against democracy is a five-minute
conversation with the average voter.
- I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is
prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
- In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be
attended by a bodyguard of lies.
- 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.
- If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are
going to do is make the rubble bounce.
- This report, by its very length, defends itself against
the risk of being read.
- This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the
end. But, it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
- The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of
blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of
misery.
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the
quality which guarantees all others.
- Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most
times he will pick himself up and carry on.
- Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities
because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others.
- Never give in. Never, never, never, never, in nothing
great or small, large or petty, 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.
- So they [the Government] go on in strange paradox, decided
only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid
for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
- Democracy is the worst form of government except for all
those others that have been tried.
- Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: 'We are
still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.'
- 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. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have
before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. 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 in 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.
- We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We
shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall
fight with growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island,
whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on
the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we
shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
- Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can
easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will
be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have
to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for
survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is
no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as
slaves.
- Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island
or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and
life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But
if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including
all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new
Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear
ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a
thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'
- From the days of Sparticus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski,
Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been
steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in
the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every
subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of
extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of
Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their
head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.
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