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I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards the German chancellor prior to the outbreak of war: We cannot tell whether Hitler will be the man who will once again let loose upon the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably succumb, or whether he will go down in history as the man who restored honour and peace of mind to the great Germanic nation. . . .

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The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

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Nourish your hopes, but do not overlook realities.

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These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city ... Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners.

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A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint.

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Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

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Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.

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Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.

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No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it.

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It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State

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It is bad for a nation when it is without faith.

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I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.

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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

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One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.

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A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted.

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Put together a seaman, soldier and airman and what do you get? The sum of all fears.

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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.

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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

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The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it.

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