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Title: ~ Winston Churchill Quotes ~
Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:39:30 AM
Winston Churchill Quotes

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A British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, PC, DL, FRS (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War (World War II). He is widely regarded as one of the great wartime leaders. He served as Prime Minister twice (1940–45 and 1951–55). A noted statesman and orator, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer, and an artist. To date, he is the only British prime minister to have received the Nobel Prize in Literature, and he was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.

Here are some famous quotes by Winston Churchill.

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Terminological inexactitude
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:43:27 AM
A joke is a very serious thing.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:44:02 AM
War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:44:27 AM
I am easily satisfied with the very best.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:44:57 AM
If you are going through hell keep going.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:45:23 AM
The price of greatness is responsibility.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:45:46 AM
Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:46:14 AM
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:46:37 AM
The English never draw a line without blurring it.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:47:04 AM
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:47:34 AM
We are all worms but I do believe I am a glow-worm.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:47:56 AM
Never interrupt me when I'm trying to interrupt you.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:48:19 AM
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:48:46 AM
Without courage all other virtues lose their meaning.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:49:11 AM
I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:49:35 AM
We are all worms but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:50:04 AM
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:50:28 AM
No one can guarantee success in war but only deserve it.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:50:49 AM
Arise and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:51:20 AM
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:51:58 AM
He is a very modest man with a great deal to be modest about.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:52:37 AM
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 11:55:11 AM
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:01:51 PM
There are a lot of lies going around...and half of them are true.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:02:18 PM
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:04:34 PM
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:06:06 PM
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:13:48 PM
Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:14:28 PM
The maxim 'Nothing avails but perfection' may be spelled 'Paralysis.'
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:15:18 PM
We must have a better word than 'prefabricated' why not 'ready-made'?
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:16:13 PM
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:16:52 PM
Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiam.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:18:22 PM
We must beware of needless innovations especially when guided by logic.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:19:27 PM
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:19:56 PM
Dogs look up to you. Cats look down on you. Pigs treat you like equals.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:20:21 PM
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:20:49 PM
Politics is more dangerous than war for in war you are only killed once.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:21:19 PM
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:21:46 PM
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 12:22:08 PM
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:47:30 PM
Saving is a fine thing. Especially when your parents have done it for you.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:47:56 PM
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:48:18 PM
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:48:40 PM
However beautiful the strategy you should occasionally look at the results.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:49:05 PM
India is a geographical term. It is no more a United Nation than the Equator.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:49:26 PM
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:49:52 PM
This report by its very length defends itself against the risk of being read.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:50:14 PM
I think 'no comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:50:37 PM
If one has to submit it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:51:01 PM
I may be drunk Miss but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:51:22 PM
Success is not final failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:51:45 PM
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:52:06 PM
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:52:27 PM
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:52:50 PM
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:53:10 PM
Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:53:32 PM
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:53:55 PM
In wartime truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:54:16 PM
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty the drama of human life would be destroyed.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 26, 2015, 01:54:33 PM
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present we shall find we have lost the future.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:15:10 AM
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:15:36 AM
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:15:59 AM
It is no use saying 'we are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:16:24 AM
There are few virtues which the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:16:49 AM
Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:26:45 AM
It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:46:13 AM
It is hard if not impossible to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:46:53 AM
Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:47:18 AM
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weeaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:47:56 AM
Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:48:22 AM
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:48:50 AM
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:49:23 AM
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:49:48 AM
Truth is incontrovertible ignorance can deride it panic may resent it malice may destroy it but there it is.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:50:15 AM
Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:50:44 AM
Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:51:10 AM
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:51:44 AM
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:52:10 AM
Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:53:06 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 10:55:03 AM
All the great things are simple and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:05:51 AM
Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is however a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:13:37 AM
Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once but in politics many times.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:14:37 AM
Any man who is under 30 and is not a liberal has no heart; and any man who is over 30 and is not a conservative has no brains.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:28:40 AM
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:29:42 AM
The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:30:09 AM
Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:30:36 AM
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:31:03 AM
It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:31:32 AM
Socialism is a philosophy of failure the creed of ignorance and the gospel or envy its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:32:01 AM
I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life most of which never happened.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:32:44 AM
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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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:33:13 AM
Victory at all costs victory in spite of all terror victory however long and hard the hard may be; for without victory there is no survival.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:33:38 AM
The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world we learn we are spirits--not animals.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:34:13 AM
When I am abroad I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:34:39 AM
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.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:35:22 AM
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 honour and good sense.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:36:00 AM
Never give in! Never give in! Never never never never.... In nothing great or small large or petty never give in except to convictions or honor and good sense!
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:36:45 AM
The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that when nations are strong they are not always just and when they wish to be just they are no longer strong.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:37:15 AM
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.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:37:46 AM
Why you can 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.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:38:16 AM
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.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:38:43 AM
If you have an important point to make don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile-driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack!
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:39:20 AM
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.'
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:39:47 AM
The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:40:12 AM
That long (Canadian) frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean guarded only by neighbourly respect and honourable obligations as an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:40:40 AM
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is--the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:41:06 AM
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.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:41:31 AM
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.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:42:00 AM
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said namely that I have inspired the nation. It was the nation and the race dwelling all around the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:42:26 AM
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:42:53 AM
We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France we shall fight with growing confidence and 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 halls. We shall never surrender.
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Post by: MysteRy on December 27, 2015, 11:43:15 AM
We shall not flag or fail. We shall fight in France we shall fight on the seas and oceans we shall fight with growing confidence and 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.